I heard about it on radio and took my son Conor and his friend Mathew to get our photos taken with the trophy.
This was no replica but is the actual trophy that will be awarded to and kept by the winning team next year.
We expected mega crowds and an interminably long queue to get to be photographed with the trophy.
We were both relieved and disappointed to find that although there was a crowd it was nowhere near as large as we expected. Although there was a great buzz in South Africa when the tournament was awarded this doesn't seem to have been sustained.
We waited in the buzzing queue for about 30 minutes before it was our turn. By the time we got to the trophy we had been primed by constant reminders that no-one was to touch the trophy.
As you can see we got pics of just the two boys with the trophy and then the three of us together.
Conor is in the striped top and Mathew in the Bafana Bafana top. He even got interviewed by a local TV channel for wearing his Bafana Bafana top.
A once in a lifetime experience!
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