Fifa president Sepp Blatter arrives ahead of the draw with South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki

Uefa chief and former French captain Michel Platini is greeted on arrival at the Durban International Convention Centre

Singer Youssou N'Dour entertains the assembled guests as the countdown to the World Cup qualifying draw continues

Performers provide further entertainment for the great and good of the game with excerpts from the Lion King musical

Blatter announces that awarding the 2010 World Cup to South Africa was about giving "justice to a continent"

The Asia draw gets proceedings underway with Australia drawn in Group 1 with Iraq, Qatar and China

The balls continue to be pulled from the goldfish bowls with the Concacaf draw proving to be a complex affair

England face another qualifying campaign against Croatia along with Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Andorra