Now for the real thing - World Cup 2010

I dont know about you but I like the fact that there is no need today or tomorrow or anytime soon to worry about what is on television - soccerwise that is.
The Fifa Confed Cup is over and very soon,
yes we will be back to the same routine of Premier League soccer, English soccer and all the other weird and wonderful sports we are used to.
Confed Cup was a blast.
A reader in one of the paper today commented how the park and ride improved from shambles in the first game to real organised operation by the end of the games.
I must say having attended two games - USA vs Brazil and Bafana vs Spain games, I can attest to that. The first game was shambles.
I arrived in Pretoria at the agreed venue but the drivers supposed
to take us to the stadium at Loftus were lost. Taxi drivers lost! Go figure.

Mind you they were lost on the way back from stadium to the restaurant where they had picked us up in the first place.

The second game - or the losers' final as they say - was a thorough
breeze. We left JHB at noon via Pretoria. At the last toll gate before Rustenburg we were handed a piece of paper directing us to the various park and rides.
We picked one and drove straight there. A quick transfer to the bus and before long we were at the stadium.
Again after the game, it was basically the same. Out to the waiting buses and before long we were back in cars and on way home. Part of the park and ride problem is that people do not listen. As you board the bus, they tell you that you need to check the sticker on the bus so you will not be lost.
A lot of people boarded wrong buses.
I hope those are not the ones who have been complaining loudest - the ones who had not noticed the stickers.
So just as well we have Confed Cup. There is still a lot to improve but we shall get there.