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By: Another reason that South Africa can't host the 2010 World Cup | 6000 miles from civilisation...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:04:43 +0000

[...] the Angolans, the sharks and the naughty people with knives. Have you seen the number of flippin’ [...]

By: 6000

6000 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:15:20 +0000

Marc > Thre are a lot of people waiting for us to fail. That’s why it’s imperative that we succeed!

Ro > Every big sporting event is a huge target for terrorism – and why not? You don’t get a bigger stage than the Olympics or the World Cup.

By: Duncan White gets it right | 6000 miles from civilisation...

Duncan White gets it right | 6000 miles from civilisation... — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:17:57 +0000

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By: Ro

Ro — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:43:42 +0000

I can’t quite suppress the fear that something terrible will happen during the World Cup Finals, but that’s down to the wider geopolitical situation rather than because of what’s happened in Angola. And I feel exactly the same way – even more so – about the Olympics here in the UK.

I hope I’m wrong and the fears are nothing more than shadows that disappear when the light of day falls upon them.

But, in any case, that’s no reason to cancel any major sporting event – that is to let fear triumph over hope, and if we ever let ourselves fall into that trap, then we really are doomed.
.-= Ro´s last blog ..Practical Economics =-.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:26:42 +0000

But how could we possibly sell newspapers without beautiful headlines like that or give the nay-sayers “hope” that the world cup will actually still be played on another continent?!

Maybe the World Cup actually being played here will help educate the rest of the world that we are not just one big (un)happy continent and that we are as diverse as places like Europe.

It is still a problem though and these kind of incidents need to be stamped out. I said it on another blog as well that Pakistan are still trying to convince people to come back and tour them after that horrendous attack on the Sri Lankan cricket side.

It s the kind of rubbish we don’t need
.-= Marc´s last blog ..10 TRENDS FOR 2010 – by Dion Chang =-.