A Brisith reporter from The Sunday Mirror has been arrested by the South African police for "orchestrating" the incident at Cape Town's Greenpoint Stadium where UK citizen, Pavlos Joseph trespassed into the English team's change room.

Simon Wright was arrested for "booking hotels for Mr Joseph under a false name and also harbouring and interviewing Mr Joseph for seven days after he made news," National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele told a press briefing in Pretoria this morning.

Cele told both local and international media that police had evidence that Wright had orchestrated the incident and " involved the cooperation of a number of individuals".

Cele said observation of CCTV footage from the English change rooms and investigations confirmed this.

"They just wanted to put the World Cup in a bad light and to profit from this act- we expect to arrest more people in this case."

Wright wrote several articles in the run up to the World Cup, criticising South Africa's security and dissuaded people from attending the tournamment becuase of crime.

Furthermore, Cele said that since the start of the tournament, countrywide, there have been 29 cases of unauthorised ticket sales. 33 people were arrested for their involvement, of which 14 were South Africans and 19 from other countries.

In total, Cele said police have arrested 316 people, of which 207 are South Africans and 109 foreign nationals, including people from Mozambique, Algeria, 8 from the UK, 5 Argentinians, Denmark, France and Australia. Cele joked it was a "United Nations in Crime".

Most of the arrests were related to theft.

Cele said that security has been successful and that both World Cup security and normal policing were equally important.

"The SAPS are good ambassadors. And I would like to encourage SAPS members to ensure Fifa World Cup takes place in a stable and safe environment."