If you’re anxiously watching the FIFA website every five minutes to see if there have been more tickets released for your match, worry no more! There is a web service out there that will do the watching for you.
A programmer known to Flow but likely not allowed to moonlight made this gem of a web application (and by moonlight we mean he actually spent an entire night coding this thing up and snoring at his day job the next morning, so we won’t mention names).
By simply entering your email address, Match Find will watch the FIFA website for you and send you an email if the availability has changed. I selected Soccer City and Ellis Park, which looked sold-out for all money. A few hours later, I received an email to notify me that four games had suddenly become available, including the quarter final. Now where are those Category 4s?
A great example of what a bit of Ellislab’s CodeIgniter can do for you in an evening.