The travelling, the lighting, the construction – the carbon footprint of the greatest show on earth doesn't bear thinking about, although to be fair the event did at least hit all but one of its sustainability targets.
"There are a lot of pages about how fantastic and fair the event will be, but if you actually dissect the document and take all the nice words away, it's a very clever legal engineering whereby they have total control over the event and the competition".
To be fair, the events of the last day of the match would have tested the patience of someone a good deal more saintly than Cronje.
To be fair, the events in question don't appear to be cynically stage-managed.
Alistair Burtenshaw, the group exhibition director of the London Book Fair, said the event was primarily a business-to-business fair to showcase new markets to the publishing sector, but it was also excited about the professional and cultural programme that would be presented.
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair, as the event is known, hardly rivals its bigger counterparts, like Frankfurt or even Cairo, in size or stature, but its impact on publishing in Africa is undeniable.
Earlier this year at the Hong Kong book fair, the premiere event in the city's literary calendar, there was a notable decline of stalls carrying political and 'banned" works.
At the five-day fair, the epochal event in the toy-selling business, it was abundantly clear that technology had become an essential component in toys.
In December 1992, for instance, Li and several Falun Gong students participated in the Asian Health Expo in Beijing, where he reportedly "received the most praise [of any qigong school] at the fair, and achieved very good therapeutic results," according to the fair's organizer The event helped cement Li's popularity, and journalistic reports of Falun Gong's healing powers spread.
It's fair to say the event wasn't helped by its scheduling.
Chris Adams (@chrisadamsmkts) Reminder: Italy's PM Enrico Letta has returned to Rome to save his coalition govt from collapse after Berlusconi's party resignation threats September 27, 2013 Updated at 4.46pm BST 3.54pm BST Austria goes to the polls this weekend, and it's fair to say the event has not caused as much comment as the German election last Sunday.
