Durban has been treated unfairly in the allocation of 2010 World Cup soccer matches to host cities, said Julie-May Ellingson, head of the city’s strategic projects unit and of its 2010 programme yesterday.
Ellingson said that Durban deserved to host a quarterfinal match.
“We have been given five first-round matches, a second-round match and one semifinal. That is not fair because it is the same [allocation] as [awarded to] Nelson Mandela Bay — but we are a much bigger city,” she said.
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