The Fifa World Cup ticket office in Sandton, Johannesburg, opened up this morning to kicking and shoving (though no biting that we could see) as non-existent security and crowd management ran straight into eager fans.
A system of issuing numbers to early queuers, some of who formed a line as early as Wednesday afternoon, fell apart entirely as a crowd pushed towards the door. While the rest of the more than 1,000 people remained in good spirits, the crowd immediately around the single, glass entrance did not remain as calm. Nobody was seriously hurt, but there were several altercations between a single burly security guard and a whole procession of hopeful buyers.
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