Witty City send Bucs a reminder
CAPE Town City’s Twitter timeline has been a hive of activity this season and the smart aleck behind the account must have an honours degree in sarcasm and humour. With City needing a favour from Pirates on Thursday, the witty individual quipped: “@Orlando_Pirates let’s have a chat guys . . . if you want to borrow Ngoma, Gumede, Johannes, Majoro, Tinkler, Mkhize, Koapeng for Wits just ask!” All these former Pirates have played a crucial role in City’s successful maiden season.
NOT ones for lying down, the Buccaneers fans stormed the timeline in a manner not to dissimiar to their Loftus Versfeld invasion during their tennis-set blanking by Mamelodi Sundowns earlier this year.
While one decided to let loose the expected expletives, one tweep replied: “Come next season you will be fighting relegation with Thanda Royal Zulu.”
The return was light-hearted and brutal in the same breath: “That’s what they’ve been telling us every day since we started. We’re happy to continue entertaining the haters.”
@ntombela88 summed up Orlando Pirates’ forgettable 80th anniversary season with one tweet: “We are being trolled by a fly-bynight team. Wow my Pirates.” Yes, Orlando Pirates, the tennis-set season must be consigned to the dustbin asap.
GETTING out of the National First Division is tougher than navigating your way out of the Amazon rain forest. This is why congratulations have to be in order for Thanda Royal Zulu. With three rounds left, they made promotion look like a walk in the park and their persistence has paid off. Since their 2008/09 relegation, they’ve been threatening to kick the door down. This season, they brought their battering ram and removed the door from its hinges. Now to learn lessons from those who couldn’t last a season in the top flight.
IN their guise as Benoni Premier United, Thanda Royal Zulu gave us Bernard Parker, who at the time scored goals like they were going out of fashion. He failed to retain that touch at Kaizer Chiefs and maybe a return to his roots is not such a bad idea. Lately Richards Bay isn’t such a bad place in which to be a footballer.
ON the same wavelength, Santos have made a quiet and dignified exit to the wilderness of the ABC Motsepe. It’s a crying shame that on the 20th anniversary of their promotion from the old First Division Coastal Stream, they disappear without a whimper. With their 2001/02 league title under Gordon Igesund, they put Cape Town back on the map as a footballing power, but the inability to adapt to the times can be ruthless in football. It's cold outside the top two tiers. Just ask Moroka Swallows.