I know this is supposed to be a fun site and not a news site, but (especially seeing as I have a special interest in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in my South African backyard), I’m shocked to hear this news: the BBC is reporting that the bus carrying the Togo soccer team to their opening African Nations Cup match in Angola has been attacked by gunmen near the Congolese border. Apparently (and the reports are still very sketchy) superstar Emmanuel Adebayor is not among the wounded… but there are definitely wounded players and staff. We’ll see how this story pans out. Man, I hope everybody’s OK…
Of course, you’re going to have idiots wondering how this affects the World Cup in SA. Allow me to remind y’all that northern Angola is further, distance-wise, from South Africa than Bosnia/Kosovo/Yugoslavia were from all those “safe” European countries (like Italy, Germany, Austria, etc) when war was waging in the early 1990s. So let’s focus on the Togolese team for now…