Ex-Chiefs player Mayo blames internal politics

League seasons, that is 20 months to be precise.

Chippa’s incumbent coach, Eddie Dyaloyi is the fifth during the campaign coming to an end today.

According to Mayo, the chopping and changing of coaches should be attributed to unprofessional and clueless management in running affairs at the club.

Mayo continued that most of the coaches, none of them who served more than six months were not a problem per se but were let down by shortage of people who understand football in the club’s management.

“By saying they needed people who know the business at management level, I do not mean former players because people will think I am talking about myself,” said Mayo.

“Because really the problem was never with the coaches but with the management that does not know what they are doing.”

The 41-year-old Mayo believes axing coaches like Chippa have been doing has got a far-reaching psychological impact on players.

He said: “Just imagine, when players are beginning to adapt to a certain coach’s philosophy, boom he is fired and in comes another one.

“It is ridiculous, it has never worked anywhere and will never work anywhere.

“For instance how does sacking a coach who has put you in the top eight make sense,” he asked.

“Roger [Sikhakhane] did not fail but was the victim of internal politics.”

Sikhakhane was sacked early this year, half-way through to the season but the club was comfortably in the first eight on the log table with 22 points.

Since then, they managed to collect a mere eight points as they are currently 14th with 30 points.

“Naughty” is proposing that the club reorganise their management going into the new season.

All they needed was ambitious people with solid business acumen and knowledge of the in and outs of the sport.

The Nelson Mandela Metro who were the chief lobbyists for Chippa to relocate from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and among main financial