One British and one American ticket reseller could face lengthy jail terms in South Africa over possessing World Cup tickets for resale worth £300,000, reports the Daily Express. Authorities warn of a hard line on World Cup crime. A Nigerian World Cup Ticket Reseller Sentenced to 3 Years in Jail in South Africa for possessing a mere 30 tickets. And Euroteam Was Busted: Two Danes - Fined and May face South African Jail already.  It is believed the pair had already resold tickets worth US $440,000 – more than £290,000. "The only people who are allowed to be selling World Cup tickets are Match," Police spokesman Col. Vishnu Naidoo said, referring to FIFA's official ticketing agent, MATCH, partially owned by FIFA head Sepp Blatter's nephew. For the full lowdown on  FIFA nepotism read Andrew Jennings lengthy and damning investigative reports'. 

Colonel Naidoo said it was illegal for anyone other than Fifa subsidiary Match to sell World Cup tickets. Karen Sorensen, 37, and Brendan Evans, 38, were arrested on Thursday at their hotel in Johannesburg after detectives seized 122 World Cup tickets, several laptops, paperwork and mobile phones.

Sorensen, from Wimbledon, south-west London, and Evans, a Zimbabwe-born U.S. citizen, appeared before a special court in Randburg, Johannesburg, charged with breaking two trade laws. The pair were each released on £1,300 bail and ordered to return on July 28.

Thursday's arrests were on charges of illegally selling and distributing World Cup hospitality packages in contravention of South Africa's Trade Practices Act and the Unfair Business Practices Act, which covers ticket sales and distribution.