An update on my earliest post about Togo refusing to take the field if their promised bonuses did not arrive:

Team manager Otto Pfister has suddenly resigned from the team on the eve of their first World Cup game. Pfister said, in a release: "When I started to be manager of Togo, I was promised that bonuses for the players would be cleared, That is still not the case, so I decided to quit immediately. It's a professional decision. However, in not managing a team at the World Cup, my life's dream has been destroyed. But this is a situation I simply cannot work with."

Togo's prime minister arrived in Germany yesterday, hoping to broker an accord.

Should Togo's chosen team refuse to take the field, the country cannot field a set of replacement players (FIFA only allows replacements in case of injury) and the nation could be banned from international competition indefinitely.