Stiff Safa tongues can learn tips from Musa
IT’S common knowledge that combustible Belgian coach Luc "Miyagi" Eymael and Polokwane City boss Johnny "Walker" Mogaladi get along about as fantastically as President Jacob Zuma did with his former finance minister Pravin Gordhan.
So you have to wonder just what was going through the minds of the good folks at the Premier Soccer League's Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) when they ordered Eymael to return to City this week. Eymael had, after all, not hidden the fact that he'd rather walk barefoot across broken glass and red hot coals than return to the club he quit in a huff last month.
Did the DRC forget that the relationship between the Belgian and his former boss had broken down to such an extent that Eymael threatened to unleash his black belt on his erstwhile colleagues if any of them got it into their heads to rough him up again like they did when he ran into them at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium after Bloemfontein Celtic’s 1-0 win over City two weeks ago? "I have a black belt in karate. I am not scared of anybody. But I made a promise to my wife that I wouldn’t fight,” said Eymael after the scuffle. We don't know about you, but this debacle is better than any of the Karate Kid movies.
NIGERIAN international Ahmed Musa will marry a second wife in June, just after his Nigeria Super Eagles play Bafana Bafana in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. Tsamaya's concubine from Hillbrow strongly recommends that the stiff-tongued singletons at the South African Football Association should consult Musa for courting and smooth-talking tips since they've been terrible at wooing a coach to take charge of Bafana.
STUART Baxter, who is showing slight signs of Mad Coaches Disease syndrome since expressing a desire to return to the poisoned chalice that is the Bafana job, is having no sleepless nights over the oversupply of former Kaizer Chiefs players at SuperSport United. "I don't get hate mail from Bobby [Motaung]. I don't get hate mail from Kaizer [Motaung]" he blurted at the Nedbank Cup presser. Bax best believe that some crackerjack hate mail will drop in his inbox from his chairman, Khulu Sibiya, if he doesn’t deposit any shining silver in the cabinet.
OUR detectives were delighted to spot the honorary, lifetime, from Cape to Cairo Tsamaya Hall of Famer of all time Peter Mancer. Squire for Hire looked warm in a 1960s cashmere black jacket. It was a great departure from the foil he was wrapped in at the PSL-SuperSport 10 year anniversary junket a few months ago. In his best ballroom posture, Mancer the Dancer sashayed around the room greeting journos, sporting a disarming wallto-wall smile that could charm a few billion out of the pockets of any potential PSL sponsor.
SO much for the greatest comeback part two. That’s the thought that crossed Tsamaya’s mind while watching Barcelona fail to even score a consolation goal over two legs against Juventus. Too bad the referees didn’t get the penalty memo this time.
"IF you're given a task to build a castle of plastic chairs, you put one on top of the other and they pile up and you go high. They are not going to drop because they go high, they drop because you …If you focus on the height of the chairs, you're going to start shaking." Say what? Exactly. If you listen to Steve Komphela everyday, your mind will start shaking. Jelous down.