It’s time the PSL ends Ajax shambles now

In the light of judge Denise Fisher’s ruling that Ajax Cape Town must be reinstated to the Absa Premiership and the promotion play-offs to be set aside, Fifa, as the world governing body of football, must go through their policies and their rules.

All they need to do is go back and read what is written there and if the rules are in favour of Ajax, the league must then be bold enough to admit that they were wrong and reinstate the Urban Warriors to the Premiership.

After that they need to come up with a solution on how to accommodate Black Leopards because they won the play-offs – although the results have now been set aside. In fairness, Leopards earned the right to Premiership football and it would be unjust if they are left out in the cold.

Yes, there may be financial implications that may affect the league negatively, and this would go on to affect the scheduling of games as we are drawing closer to the start of the season, with the league set to kick off in August.

If the contrary presents itself, in the form of Fifa ruling against Ajax and endorsing the PSL, then it will just be a matter of the Mother City outfit accepting they will have to play in the National First Division. With the resources they have at their disposal, they should be able to put up a good fight to win the NFD title and bounce back to the top flight.

At this stage, I don’t think taking each other back and forth is good for the PSL and Ajax, as this will not do any good to their relationship going forward.

This is a mess that involves a lot of teams, such as the top eight, but at this point, the focus should be on the team that was relegated – Ajax in this case – and Leopards, who were promoted through the play-offs. Since the play-offs were declared null and void, the PSL must decide what will happen to them, those are the immediate issues.

As much as the situation at hand is very complicated, there are rules that are put in place regarding all possible circumstances in the game at large, one would assume. Instead of going back and forth and passing the buck, they need to follow the rules until a decisive and concrete resolution is reached, or else this fiasco will rumble on.

At the centre of this is Tendai Ndoro, and I am not pointing fingers at him because he is a player who trusts his agent and that all

parties involved are familiar with the rules and so forth. When you are involved in this saga, especially after playing for a big club in Orlando Pirates and have moved abroad, something like this is likely to have a negative impact on you physiologically.

It depends on his mental fitness, especially now that he is without a club and other clubs are already into pre-season and are finalising their squads. But we do know what he is capable of, we have seen him at Pirates.

He himself also knows he has the quality to still deliver at a high level, and that can only work as a self-motivating factor going forward. I am sure that given his pedigree, a contract will come his way.