Woke up this morning to some of the punters from the night before still ‘celebrating’ the AW result v Italy, there are some keen drinkers on this tour!
Was a leisurely start to the day, we wandered down to a local shopping centre for a look around, and I loaded up on pressies for the kids back home, contrary to what you hear the place is not obviously dangerous and I am yet to feel unsafe.
Late in the afternoon we headed to Ellis Park to watch Spain play Honduras. The bus ride took us through what is apparently one of the more dangerous parts of Jozi, and John, our bus driver said he had been shot here a few years back. A few of the punters on the bus were a bit nervous as the traffic crawled through but the reputation did not stop lots of the punters hanging out the windows buying knock off supports stuff from the multitude of hawkers.
As soon as I got to Ellis Park, I immediately felt uncomfortable being at the scene of the 1995 robbery by the Springboks, there were a few Africans sitting behind us and I talked up the poisoning of our boys which they still think is a conspiracy theory. Ellis Park is an impressive arena, but I still hated it.
Spain had to win after their shock loss to the Swiss in their first game and they should have won by plenty, and boy do they play some pretty football. Rosco was happy his boy David Villa got a couple goals (the first possibly goal of the tournament so far) as he has invested heavily on him to be the golden boot, but Villa broke his heart when he sprayed a penalty wide for his hattrick. 2-0 final.
All in all a good night out at Ellis Park, the games where you are not really supporting one of the teams are more relaxed and I got into the spirit by making Stu take photos of me with other fans, the fact that most of them are hot girls is purely coincidental, unfortunately I can't get them off Stu's camera at present but for the deviants amongst you, they will be posted!
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