Banyana – showing the boys how it’s supposed to be done

an everlasting duel with the Naija side that we are certain is going to deliver many more sparks in the years ahead.

You can take a bet it is the sort of challenge that many of us will relish; and Banyana are going to treasure the few close encounters and wins they are going to register against this never-say-die opponent.

You shall recall that it was not so long ago that Banyana recorded their first win over the Falcons, about a month before they met in Ghana. That win dispelled a lot of myths about the relative strengths of the SA team vis-à-vis that of their Nigerian sisters.

Just to cap it all, the SA side also had the singular honour of capturing the “Player of the Tournament” award via 22 year-old striker Thembi Kgatlane.

How about that pay parity with the boys now Mr Danny Jordaan? Surely on this issue there can be no debate that not affording national team players equal pay for equal work is down right old fashioned, outdated and undemocratic!

Turning to local matters now. Premier League sides too had international assignments just a week before and all of them did rather admirably against their continental opponents in the first leg appointments of the Caf Confederations Cup and the Champions League.

In the Confed Cup Kaizer Chief slaughtered their visitors Tanzania’s Zimamoto 4-0 while in the Champs League Orlando Pirates went for a more subtle 5-1 touch against Light Stars of the Seychelles in what marks a return to the continental league that one of the Soweto clubs had no hesitation in sidestepping in the past.