Watching goals being scored makes the game beautiful

an assistant whose job description varies slightly, but who has to take charge when the head guy has been dismissed. You get the drift. Then in the slightly better resourced teams you find an assistant to the assistant coach.

Usually this guy would be responsible for goalkeepers such as Brian “Spiderman” Baloyi and André Arendse are at their respective clubs now.

Both Baloyi and Arendse are former top goalkeepers.

But alarmingly no club in the top ranks and even lesser ranks of the league, have an assistant coach to teach strikers how and where to find the net.

This is strange indeed seeing that this is why we play in leagues and cup final games after all and why we the povo watch them on the telly.

Our sole reason for watching – mine anyway – is to see who finds the net and how often they do so. After all, that’s the whole point! Just look at what a world of difference finding the net did over the past weekend for the fortunes of Orlando Pirates .

The highly prized Musa Nyatama in a not very beautiful way toe poked the ball into a Bloemfontein Celtics’ net and voila! Pirates zooms out of the lower part of the log to near the summit in one swoop.

See? finding the net does help. So why don’t we have an assistant goalscoring coach at our clubs? I mean we get the point about teaching the goalkeepers about how to keep the ball out of the net.

So the opposite about putting balls into the net should also be a priority.

The point about the assistant goalscoring coach is of national importance.

I don’t claim to know the set-up