And so the PSL race enters its final stretch

to that of log leaders amaSandawana, and have three matches to complete their league commitments. Say we are generous and grant them all the match points from those remaining three games and do likewise for Sundowns. Maritzburg will still be a single point short of the championship and Sundowns will still have a game in hand. Get it?

The same sort of logic would apply to a former glorious team such as Abafana bok’thula noxolo (Kaizer Chiefs). Humble sides such as Free State Stars and the upstart Cape Town City as well the Leopards of Mangaung (Bloem Celtic) will be happy to have landed a berth among the greats in the PSL top eight.

For them that is literally the limit officially and otherwise in 2018.

Going down the rungs of the league for clubs placed from position nine onwards, one gets the sense that there will be general jubilation at their homes, canteens and villages when the league concludes and they are still safely ensconced in Africa’s richest and most well organised conference. The rot and disgrace right at the top notwithstanding.

We will bid a sad farewell to the rich but struggling Platinum Stars. All that talk and later change of ownership and the confusing set up of an owner-director being sort of the coach was just too much for the team to take in.

Once Dikwena were put on sale, then put off and then on again, the playing outfit lost their appetite for football in the North West province and started looking elsewhere for their personal salvation.

Dikwena’s showing against a dull