Themk shuttle bus was a squeeze, with more passengers than seats, and now someone needed to get up for the elderly couple who were the last ones on board. Two Dutch fans were the first up, and they got talking to the two newcomers in the way people do when they’re on their way to a game. Yes, it was their first time in the city, and yes, they had come all this way to watch the Netherlands play South Africa, one of their clubmates was playing in it, and he had fixed the tickets for them. The older man, sitting down now, hadn’t come so far. He and his wife lived 10 minutes up the road.