As things are going, seems I’m destined to be a couch potato

The Diamond City’s own export, Bradley “Surprise” Ralani, eventually also struck the right chord to register his prowess with the SA football follower. Ralani has been promising to dazzle us with his football skills in all of the last three matches he has played for Cape Town City. Ralani played in the Uefa region for over a decade before joining City this year.

You would remember that the Kimberlite was critically involved in the club’s ousting of Orlando Pirates from the Nedbank Cup a fortnight or so ago. Unfortunately for Ralani at the weekend he only got a chance to deliver a morale-boosting goal for his side during their 2-1 loss to Sundowns before he had to drop out of the game because of cramps in the calves.

He was awarded the Man of the Match green blazer for his troubles, though.

It’s truly exciting for South African football that a few of the lower division teams snuck into the deeper reaches of this contest this time around. It really appears this time around that there definitely seems to be a “go get it tiger” attitude among all of the sides in the competition.

Nobody gave an inch to anybody. Reputation did not count. So much so that even Pitso Mosimane himself during a live television interview recounted their hellish experience at the hands of EC Bees FC, an upstart team from the lower Safa divisions in the Eastern Cape.

Mosimane said that they had to dig from inside their reserves to find a way to dislodge the tough-as-nails EC