As the countdown to South Africa enters the final 6 months, online auction fans are getting football fever.
David Beckham was hobnobbing with football's fat cats in Cape Town this week to promote England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. At a media event, a group of children were left wondering why they were being asked to play keepy-ups with a hillbilly, only to realise that it was in fact their beloved Becks, sporting a Brokeback Mountain shirt and his latest in a long line of absurd haircuts. Let's hope he tidied himself up before he met Sepp Blater, the Fifa president.
But while Becks was dressing up as an extra from Grant Theft Auto: The Milan Years, the main order of business was the draw for next summer's tournament. This is when serious football fans really start getting excited about the prospect of a solid month of football. The colour, the passion, the atmosphere, all the best players in the world in the one tournament money can't buy. Add to that a stubborn refusal to acknowledge that World Cups are always a massive disappointment and will never, ever be as good as the one you watched when you were 11 and you have everything you need.
Well, almost everything. How about a Samsung 42" plasma TV to bring the big match atmosphere right into your living room? Or Fifa 10 on the PS3 to show them how it's done afterwards? If you sign up to an online auction website like MadBid now you could win yourself a World Cup cornucopia of goodies (look it up, it means lots) before the big kick-off.
MadBid also auctions off piles of cash, which will help pay for a few afternoons in the pub watching the action and a few evenings in the pub debating endlessly where it all went wrong. Auctions have also been running for a DVD box set containing the complete collection of Lost, which will provide a bit of respite when you're all footballed out. Or how about a brand new car? That's got to beat most pick-me-ups for when the tournament comes to a close.
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