Will you be helping to crash the FIFA website today?

At 11am GMT, tickets for South Africa’s first World Cup will go on sale. There’s no need to hurry though, as they will not be dished out on a first come, first served basis. Instead, fans must register their interest on the FIFA website, and then wait for the results of a random draw to take place on April 15.

There will be 3 million tickets available for 64 matches, although 120,000 subsidised tickets have been reserved for South African residents, and a further 40,000 will be given to stadium construction workers.

Three categories of tickets will be available, the least expensive of which is $80 USD.

There has been much hype about South Africa’s lack of preparation for the tournament (stadiums not being completed, security fears, infrastructure concerns etc), but we suspect this is media hype that should be taken with a pinch of salt. After all, the press told us how shitty the Beijing Olympics would be for months, and it turned out to be a an unbridled success.

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