South Africa, June 11 -- Perhaps that's because there's quite a bit of nastiness hanging in the air of one of the host countries - no prizes for guessing which one - where, if the sky-high price scalping doesn't get you, then the immigration authorities certainly will.

There are probably thousands who have opted not to go - or to travel to Mexico and Canada instead - because they couldn't be bothered with cleaning up their social media feeds of any perceived lack of praise for Donald Trump.

And, of course, jumping into any sort of marketing and promotion related to the Fifa spectacle runs the risk of calling down the wrath of the legal gods from Switzerland if you haven't paid an arm and a leg to become one of the sponsors.

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