Critics are once again questioning South African's ability to host the World Cup after the terrorist attack on the Togolese team bus as it was travelling towards to the Africa Cup of Nations and three people were killed.

FIFA top dog Sepp Blatter has responded citing the ATP tournament in Johannesburg as just another example of how South Africa can stage successful sporting events.

Ironically, Togo have since been banned from the next two Africa Cups of Nations for withdrawing from the tournament in the wake of the fatal gun attack, but they are now appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to have the ban lifted.

While the attack did happen on African soil, it was nearly 4,000km away from Johannesburg and it's like suggesting that America couldn't host the event in California because of an incident that took place in South America or that England couldn't host the event in 2018 for an incident that happened elsewhere in Europe.

Sepp Blatter, talking to German Press Agency DPA
It is nonsense to combine what has happened in Angola with a terrorist attack and link it to the South Africa World Cup. Eleven million tourists travel every year to South Africa. Last week an ATP [tennis] tournament was played in Johannesburg, and they didn't die.

It's kind of an anti-Africa movement; this is not right. There is still, in the so called 'old world', a feeling that 'why the hell should South Africa organise a World Cup.' Why the hell? It was easier for them to go down to Africa, the colonialists in the past hundred years, to take out all the best, and now to take out all the best footballers.

And when you have to give something back they don't want to go. What's that? It is a lack of respect, a lack of respect for the whole of Africa.

There is no doubt the event in South Africa will be a success and those critics suggesting otherwise are the ones that will miss out, because this will be the best World Cup yet.