Did Pitso get his wish anyway?

“Yeah, OK, ’cause I was thinking of introducing those new chaps we brought over from Pirates and Chiefs to see how they fit in with the team.”

“Ja, rather do that. You still have Keagan and Teko’s places to fill.”

“Thanks Chair, I’ll put the new boys to work.”

(George Lebese and Oupa Manyisa exchange high fives).

So that’s how the game was played and how it ended – as though it was a field practice for the Brazilians.

One can seriously suspect that this kind of conversation probably went down sometime before the match in the dressing room. That would explain Mosimane’s happy gestures after the match. If he had to account to ‘higher-ups’ for his team’s performance Mosimane would have found choice words to share with whomever cared to listen.

Contrast that with Steve Komphela’s postmatch interview. The Amakhosi chief hemmed and hawed a lot while looking for words to express his unease at having to give a credible account for his side bombing out of the contest at the hands of SuperSport United.

In my book I think the mighty Kaizer Chiefs, like its ageing founder and mentor Chincha Guluva, is suffering from a severe bout of the cricks as it nears its 50th anniversary.

On the other hand, on the west coast, new coach Benni McCarthy breathed a sigh of relief. See, Benni’s side has not exactly passed a critical match test, which is to win a game by their own effort. Cape Town City were gifted a goal