Royal Bafokeng

The antidote to lingering English arrogance is that Capello's men were facing opponents who travelled further at last summer's World Cup than the miserablists of the Royal Bafokeng compound.

England fans are given a glimpse of the future by Fabio Capello | Paul Hayward 2011

While the Dutch team were based in Sandton, Johannesburg, England's Royal Bafokeng complex on the outskirts of Rustenburg, while plush and well equipped, left the squad isolated and on the fringes of the finals, with many of the players privately complaining of boredom.

John Terry keen on city base for England rather than 'in the sticks' 2011

England's crestfallen players returned to their training complex at Royal Bafokeng, outside Rustenburg, on Sunday evening having suffered their worst ever defeat at the World Cup at the Free State stadium.

World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello set to clarify England future 2010

Anyone doubting the culture shock endured by the England players should have been at training every day at the Royal Bafokeng sports campus, where Capello's track-suited compatriots often formed a tight knot and appeared detached from the thrust of more traditional English endeavour.

World Cup 2010 live blog: 30 June 2010

The 29-year-old had faced the media yesterday "on behalf of the team" and suggested he would head a group of players in expressing their concerns to the manager in the evening's get-together at the side's hotel at Royal Bafokeng.

World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello crushes John Terry's England revolt 2010

The Manchester United centre-half is braced for up to eight weeks in rehabilitation after twisting the joint as he stretched to tackle Emile Heskey in the last few minutes of England's morning session at the Royal Bafokeng sports campus today.

Rio Ferdinand out of World Cup 2010 as curse of captain strikes 2010

He seems to have taken a page from the Royal Bafokeng of South Africa.

Kgosi Kgolo Kgafela II Lauri 2009

Vincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A young supporter of the Bafana Bafana, the South African national football team, played the vuvuzela, a large colored plastic trumpet, before the Fifa Confederations Cup third place match between Spain and South Africa Sunday at the Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa.

Sports Snapshots 2009

He seems to have taken a page from the Royal Bafokeng of South Africa.

Archive 2009-09-01 Lauri 2009

"We've got a capital allocation problem," says Niall Carroll, the man in charge of managing around 34 billion rand (4.5 billion dollars) in assets on behalf of South Africa's 300,000-strong Royal Bafokeng

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008