I feared for my safety as

FOR the first time since arriving in Doha, I feared for my safety. Yesterday, I saw the ugly side to this World Cup, a side that involved censorship and intimidation — which nearly led to my arrest. I was outside the Al Janoub Stadium ahead of Ghana versus Uruguay. I had been told that at previous Ghana games, free tickets had been handed out to supporters before the security gates. About an hour before kick-off, Ghana fans began to form queues, with a group of men directing them into three separate lines. This queue broke up several times, with fans pushing and shoving each other. There was no sign of security at this point. I started to film what was happening. I was told fans were waiting for a government official to arrive and ‘share the tickets’, as he had allegedly done at the previous two games. But with less than an hour to go before kick-off, he had not arrived. One of the men involved in the organisation told me fans were not going to be given the tickets as they were not behaving properly. By the time the match had kicked off the group started to disperse, but suddenly hundreds began running towards the barriers. By now there was a bigger security presence, with police on horses alongside officers