Underdogs with nothing much to lose could run amok, natural talents will revel, new talents will surprise, star performers will be humbled, and prima donnas will be exposed on the football’s biggest stage in Africa’s World Cup where one team stands to do a lap of honour at Soccer City, a venue where Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela, a Statesman without parallel, spoke for the first time to a South Africa free of institutionalised racism. The South Africans, the world, and an entire continent will celebrate as the Italians playing nine of their previous cup winners, begin the defence of the crown they won in Germany.

Competing in one of the toughest groups, North Korea’s red-shirts, strengthened by a couple of overseas-based players, join three other nations to mount a challenge from Asia in the World Cup in South Africa.

While all the limelight will be on the exploits of the likes of Lionel Messi and the Cristiano Ronaldo, all eyes will also be on North Korea as the men from Pyongang step on the pitch after a long absence to join the game’s biggest party this month. For only the second time in the history of football, 44 years after North Korea stunned Italy to breeze into the quarterfinals, the country finds itself in the World Cup again.

One of four Asian teams at the showpiece in South Africa – the others are Japan, South Korea, and Australia – North Korea, or to give its official Fifa title Korea DPR (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) will bring with it memories of the 1996 World Cup hosted by England.

Throw your weight around in a car with opulent interiors of exotic timber and luxurious leather, glass switches, an elegant dashboard and macho tyres – all complemented by a superpower engine.

It weighs than a fully grown 2,300 kilogram rhino, and at a length of 18 feet, is smaller than an average great white shark but bigger than a rhino. But this is an animal of a mechanical nature and belongs in the concrete jungle in areas where money trees appear to “grow".

From the front it looks like a oversized goldfish flattened with lamp-like eyes bulging at the sides and its mouth agape.

The Bentley Mulsanne, which has just been launched in Hong Kong, is a heavyweight in the super luxury motors bracket. Sitting on 20-inch wheels, which Bentley Hong Kong General Manager Douglas Chau describes as “macho’’, it rolls along like a yokozuna, only this one has a winged ornament on its bonnet. As an option 21 inch wheels are available.

Chau confides in The PEAK that those chunky wheels are a selling point for males. At the same time he cautions that while big, broad wheels are believed to enhance the ride comfort, it is not so.