Throughout this World Cup, follow Sporting Life columnist David Goldblatt, Prospect’s roving reporter in South Africa. He’s going to the games, the parties, the concerts and all the big events—but he’s also meeting local politicians, trade unionists, chefs, businessmen and artists, and unpicking the psychology of this great sporting event. Expect the most intriguing gossip and unusual reportage. This will be quite unlike the World Cup coverage you’ll find anywhere else.
To read his regularly updated World Cup 2010 blog, click here.
And to read his reflections on World Cups past and present, click here. This event will be like none of the tournaments that have preceded it, he writes, because: "We are going to the southern hemisphere, where most of the world thinks and lives differently..."