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I can't wait. I actually wish they'd just scrap the next few months of Absa Premiership football; heck, just scrap Christmas while you're at it, scrap the African Nations Cup (Bafana aren't even in it) and let's get on with it.
I am talking, of course, about the 2010 World Cup. The 32 participants have been finalised, yet tomorrow there will still be 200 days to go to the world footballing showpiece - 200 more days to snooze through Santos v Maritzburg United, to be sent into a coma by Bafana Bafana and meaningless international friendlies that end in tedious goalless draws.
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Oh, but there's the rub. If there is any side that needs 200 days before the World Cup finals, it's Bafana Bafana. In fact, they could do with another 700. Carlos Alberto Parreira may have steadied Joel Santana's Titanic-just-after-it's-hit-the-iceberg-resembling ship slightly with those draws against Japan and Jamaica.
But there was still one message that kept pounding the inside of my head no matter how much I tried to conjour up images of Benni McCarthy netting a winning hat-trick in the World Cup final - we are just NOT good enough.
Japan whizzed the ball around us in pretty patterns, our players resembling an overweight South African traffic cop chasing an athletic thief.
The Asian World Cup qualifiers would have won the game at a canter with better finishing. Top of the plump crop was Benni McCarthy, who looked about as much a solution to our goalscoring woes as rice cakes provide a solution to hunger.
After McCarthy was substituted in the second half of the game against Jamaica, along with the Reggae Boyz's equally rotund striker Devon Rogers, it was put to me whether both might have quickly nipped off to the chip shop!
I was a strong advocate of McCarthy's return to the national team, but on this evidence, I can see exactly why he wasn't picked before, and exactly why he is being left on the bench at Blackburn Rovers.
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