“15 May 2004 will be remembered as the day when a continent and a certain world hero felt the potent, transformative power of football. Nelson Mandela was in Zurich to hear if his beloved country would be awarded the 2010 World Cup. He was there to help sell South Africa, having passionately informed the 24 men who would make the decision, Fifa’s executive committee, that listening to radio coverage of football had provided the only respite from the hellish existence of a prisoner on Robben Island and in other South African jails during the apartheid years.” (Guardian)