Alistair Hayward hails from the rural Eastern Cape. He now finds himself blinded by the pollution of the big smoke. With gold dust running through his blood he owns and runs a successful Gauteng based business. He learned to drink “brandewyn & coke” at Stellenbosch University where he studied a B.Comm and did his Honours in Marketing. Hanging on to his amateur sporting career Alistair hopes to debunk the game of soccer for many of us white flannel cricket and tennis types.So the final stage of ticket applications is upon us. As predicted by most analysts, tickets have been selling like hotcakes with fans sleeping on pavements waiting for ‘over the [...]
Read MoreAn email has been doing the rounds the last few weeks about how the 2010 FIFA World Cup is going to turn South Africans’ lives upside down.
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With less than 100 days to kick-off it’s fair to say the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa will in general be a success. But after my recent visit [...]
Read MoreNever in the history or the future of the FIFA Soccer World Cup will it be easier for fans to get their paws on tickets. The key to the success [...]
Read MoreA year ago the Supersport channels billed 2009 as the ‘Year of the Fan’. With the year having hastily raced to a conclusion, one cannot help but feel that for South [...]
Read MoreOn the Friday morning preceding the much hyped 2010 FIFA World Cup draw, a friend texted me from Germany to say the national ‘Bild Zeitung’ newspaper had uncovered a huge [...]
Read MoreThe White Lions of Sabie are a massive draw-card for any visitor to South Africa’s famous Kruger Park. Less than an hour’s drive from Sabie through Mpumalanga’s picturesque banana orchards [...]
Read MoreThe significance of the identity of the 32 competing nations has been understated in the build-up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. With 23 teams having already qualified, there are [...]
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