Toga attack will not affect World Cup
By Carly Goodwill
January 11 2010
The head of South Africa's World Cup organising committee has dismissed suggestions that the attack on Togo's team bus at the Africa Cup of Nations will have implications for this summer's World Cup.
On Friday the bus carrying the Togo team to their base for the upcoming tournament in Angola, from their training camp in DR Congo came under fire.
The attack is reported to have killed three people and has resulted in Togo pulling out of the tournament. However, despite all of the negative attention on African football, World Cup boss Danny Jordaan has played down its significance on the World Cup finals. He said
"It's nothing to do with it and I think everybody understands it has nothing to do with South Africa, When there was a bomb in London no-one said we should not have 2012 in London so we cannot have double standards. Every country's responsibility is to safeguard the event in their country so South Africa is nothing to do with the deployment of the forces in Angola. The world must be balanced and must not apply different standards when it comes to the African continent. Our World Cup is secure and we are confident because we have employed a lot of resources to safeguard the event in our country."
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Well done to the organisers of the African Cup of nations for allowing it to go ahead but also well done on the players for staying there and playing football... Of course i cannot imagine how horrible it would be to witness such crimes and would not blame a single player if they turned around and said i do not want to play untill my safety has been fully evaluated...
Throw enough sh-it at the wall and some of it will stick,
but make no mistake, Your wall's still covered in sh-it