I've stopped watching/reading crime stories in news - too depressing.
Britain has about 15 times the population as my country so there is obviously lots more murders but every day reading about some poor sod similar to myself getting killed for no reason would have you paranoid after a while.
As for South Africa - there's no way I'd have given them the world cup, people thought they were screwed over when Germany won the 2006 one but who do you think will do a better job?
It takes more than f*cking Mandela being freed to make a country advanced enough to win the world cup. No way I'd go if my cr*p football team qualified.