Blame yourselves if you missed the slaughter

like watching a full-on football match.

Okay, granted the Seychelles isn’t exactly a sexy and exciting team to pull in the masses by the thousands, so if you add that to the type of indifferent play that Bafana have put in over a couple games, then you can bet your flat as a pancake wallet that fans are unlikely to look in every nook and cranny for spare change to purchase a ticket to a game that might turn out to bepure droll.

Thanks a lot to the national broadcaster for having had the foresight and spared the millions of us the trouble of broadcasting the games into our homes. No, we will not be toying-toying anytime soon for that oversight on the part of the national broadcaster. Who gives a hoot about even paying attention for a Seychelles game? We haven’t been paying the blessitt teevee license anyway for donkey years (sic).

Give me Nigeria anytime and the stadium will be brimming with bums galore ... not South African ones but foreign bums. If you want proof of this little fact, just watch next time those big okes from up west land here for their fixture. You will be hard-pressed to see the seats from among the throbbing djembe drums and colourful, green and white flowing robes.

As for you and me we will likely be watching pirate telly as usual. That is if the national football administrators and the broadcaster agree that the price of football is right.

Anyway back to the Saturday’s game against those fellows from the holiday resort court. If, like yours truly, your watering hole or the helpful neighbours, have a skottel then you must have seen that they were up for the slaughter from the first goal.

The fellows were so nervous, I think they must have heard about how bad the crime is in the southern point of the continent, what with smoke from the protesters burning tyres billowing not far off from the stadium, and our tendency to ram lorries filled with cash, the blokes sommer scored the first goal for us. Just in case they needed something to appease our violent tendencies.

Safa too must carry some of the blame for the poor attendance at the match. Their choice of match stadium was extremely insensitive to our sweet natured visitors. Johannesburg’s FNB Stadium was highly unsuitable for the match against the islanders. Not for the location but its sheer size. The visitors have nothing like that at home. Rusty, dusty up in North West or any other smaller venue would have offered a better payday.