eFestivals' Glastonbury World Cup 2010 in support of WaterAid

At this summer's Glastonbury Festival, the second eFestivals' Glastonbury World Cup will be played in front of the Pyramid Stage, between England and the Rest of the World teams.

Players, mainly members of the eFestivals forums, are coming together to be part of the England vs The Rest Of The World football match, which will be raising funds for WaterAid.

The event on Thursday 24th June begins at 1pm at the Pyramid Stage field with prematch entertainment from Hobo Jones & the Junkyard Dogs who will be doing a 40 minute set with the World Cup match will start after that. The game will then finish around 3 o'clock when once again the Michael Eavis will present the trophy to the winning team.

Last year's event saw England romping to a 9-3 victory over the Rest of the World with the icing on the cake being Festival organiser Michael Eavis turning up to present the trophy! The event raised over £3000 for WaterAid.

This year the farmer has challenged the event to raise £6000 for WaterAid and thus provide enough money to provide the cost of building three water wells. Water is something that we all take for granted but other people aren't so lucky.

WaterAid will again be on hand with collection buckets at the game, and people who can't make it to the event can make an online donation at http://www.justgiving.com/glastoworldcup2010.

For those coming to the festival please come along and help support an event that it's hoped will become a Glastonbury tradition. Last year's game had coverage on BBC, ITV, Worthy FM as well as the Q Glastonbury review magazine (who are once again sending Pat Gilbert down to play for the England team). eFestivals hopes with your help and support and people digging deep with their donations we can have another brilliant event that we can all be proud of.

For details and to sign up to help in any way please see this thread, click here, on the eFestivals' forums.

The World Cup, which started as a discussion of a 'kick about' at the cider bus meet at 2008's festival between Andrew and Chaz, the organisers of the 'unofficial' Glastonbury event who said,
"Once again me (England) and Chazeboy (Rest of the World) are organising the game and we are putting together two teams to take part. Hopefully with the real world cup being on and an England game on the big screen on the Wednesday there will be plenty of flags and supporters to hopefully beat last year's excellent crowd (especially England's rowdy barmy army - who all piled on Englands goalkeeper at the end of the game!)."

If this sounds like your sort of thing, please come along on the day to be part of the first World Cup in Glasto's history, support the players and give whatever you can to a very good cause, WaterAid.

"Donations are currently at £903 on the justgiving site and players have raised a further £165 so far. £1068 is not bad, £6000 seems a long way off but we are still doing okay considering we have been going less than two weeks."

More information about the event can be found here.

WaterAid, who work in 17 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people. They are one of the three causes supported by the Festival along with Greenpeace, and Oxfam.

eFestivals supports WaterAid and gives around 1% of our turnover (turnover, not profit) to them each year.

For more on WaterAid's important work please see the WaterAid website.

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