The year 2010: How the press saw sport

Published January 6, 2011
A football fan blows a vuvuzela horn on the first day of the 2010 World Cup in Cape Town, on June 11, 2010. Africa's first World Cup kicked off with hosts South Africa taking on Mexico at Soweto's showpiece Soccer City venue in front of 95,000 spectators, in suburban Johannesburg, followed by France and Uruguay in Cape Town. - Photo by AFP.
A football fan blows a vuvuzela horn on the first day of the 2010 World Cup in Cape Town, on June 11, 2010. Africa's first World Cup kicked off with hosts South Africa taking on Mexico at Soweto's showpiece Soccer City venue in front of 95,000 spectators, in suburban Johannesburg, followed by France and Uruguay in Cape Town. - Photo by AFP.

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