FIFA REJECT WORLD CUP MOVE FROM SA

FIFA say their president Sepp Blatter has been misinterpreted over remarks suggesting several countries have been put on standby in a contingency plan if South Africa are not ready to host the 2010 World Cup.
Blatter told a new BBC television programme Inside Sport, broadcast on Monday, that several other countries were ready to organise the tournament if called upon by FIFA.
But FIFA director of communications Markus Siegler said the quotes had been edited down and taken out of context.
In a letter to the South African World Cup Organising Committee chief executive officer Danny Jordaan, which was made public on Wednesday, Siegler said the FIFA president had “unequivocally and unambiguously” expressed full confidence in South Africa’s ability to host the event and that there was no contingency plan.
“Upon repeated questions from the BBC reporter on this topic, specifically regarding if FIFA would go to another country in the case of some sort of natural disaster or catastrophe in South Africa, Mr. Blatter answered by saying that it was the same case with Germany (in 2006),” wrote Siegler.
Blatter told the BBC that football's world governing body had contingency plans in case South Africa could not host the World Cup in 2010.
"Other countries are ready to organise the World Cup", he said, naming the United States, England, Mexico, Japan and Spain as countries who would be ready to step in.
Blatter added: “Definitely we have a possibility to go somewhere else if something happens. It was the same case in Germany. Something can happen. A natural catastrophe or whatever, a big change in society - everybody against football.
"But then for the time being the Plan B is South Africa and the Plan C we definitely must have is a possibility to go somewhere else, but it must be a natural catastrophe," he said.
South Africa is renovating or building 10 stadiums for the World Cup and have continually said that all their preparations will be ready in time.