While this World World Cup is only into the Super 8 stage, a disturbing pattern has already emerged.

The stands and hotels are forlorn spectacles of a marketing strategy gone wrong. Spectators have just not turned up in anticipated numbers, and the dismal sight of all this emptiness makes the stomach sick over the losses for those who invested heavily in preparations for an avalanche that has barely compared with annual visitor arrivals for the tourist season.
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Not bad.....not sure why Redbaron hates yuh so but ur articles make for good reading

I think journalists spend their time reading this MB and then go and write big article from the information they glean from it.

JUST SHAMELESS :twisted: :twisted:

In reply to crapaud

Could that not come under the rubric of "research" ?

Many of the concerns being expressed here are some of the same reservations harboured by the man in the street.

In reply to jacksprat

So you saying we in some separate category that is fundamentally different from the "Man in the street?"

In reply to crapaud I agree; Baskh always sounds like repeats.

If she was philosophical then she would be saying that the hosting of the world cup was flawed at concept. The strategy came afterwards. The entire vision was myoptic; but then again she is only a secondary journalist and not an original new dimensional thinker.