I am surprised that everyone has been surprised about the fiasco with the tickets. I don’t think the tickets have been handled well, from day one, when you had to get them on the ridiculously difficult Fifa.com website and just from my own understanding of my own employees, I quickly realised that the vast majority of people do not have credit cards and are not able to pay for tickets that way.

It is a pity that the system could not run better when they must have had almost a year since the ticket sales initially opened, before they began the ticket sales to the public, but it is at least very heartening to see the incredible local support for the 2010 World Cup.