About Alistair Hayward

Alistair Hayward 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.

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Latest Articles by Alistair Hayward:

    It’s almost tickets……..

    It’s almost tickets……..

    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 [...]

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    • Posted on 20th Apr 2010
      by Alistair Hayward
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    Stock Up On Baked Beans In June???

    Stock Up On Baked Beans In June???

    An 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.
    Below is an extract [...]

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    • Posted on 7th Apr 2010
      by Alistair Hayward
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    90 SOMETHING DAYS & TICKING…..

    90 SOMETHING DAYS & TICKING…..

    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 [...]

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    • Posted on 5th Mar 2010
      by Alistair Hayward
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    Book your nook….now

    Book your nook….now

    Never 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 [...]

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    • Posted on 26th Jan 2010
      by Alistair Hayward
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    Fans Switched Off This Summer

    Fans Switched Off This Summer

    A 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 [...]

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    • Posted on 5th Jan 2010
      by Alistair Hayward
    • 1 comments

    Tequila, Grappamiel & Champagne – Strictly No Ice

    Tequila, Grappamiel & Champagne – Strictly No Ice

    On 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 [...]

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    • Posted on 7th Dec 2009
      by Alistair Hayward
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    Culling White Elephants

    Culling White Elephants

    The 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 [...]

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    • Posted on 17th Nov 2009
      by Alistair Hayward
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    Scoring Goals off the Pitch

    Scoring Goals off the Pitch

    The 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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    • Posted on 5th Nov 2009
      by Alistair Hayward
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