Tag Archives: green point stadium

Then and now

By 6000 | 6000 | September 5, 2009

What a difference two years, four months and thirteen days makes (as the song goes) (sort of):         Less golf course, more footy stadium. All the boxes ticked, then. When I was adding yesterday’s photo to my Green Point Stadium Flickr set, I noticed that I had taken one back in April 2007 from almost exactly [...]

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A3 v A4

By 6000 | 6000 | June 11, 2009

Mainly for my foreign visitors and those dwindling numbers of locals who persist in suggesting that South Africa won’t be able to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup because of… ”stuff”; an excellent set of photos from Rob Gilmour taken from a helicopter* over the Green Point Stadium. Exactly 365 days from now, I will be in [...]

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The 2010 story no one tells

By 6000 | 6000 | October 6, 2008

I was delighted to read Luke Alfred’s inspired and inspiring piece on the South African media’s view of the 2010 World Cup in yesterday’s Sunday Times, not least because it neatly sums up a lot of stuff that I’ve been moaning about for ages. You may have noticed that when it comes to the 2010 Soccer World [...]

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