The gods must be crazy

◆ fellow Midlanders FC Platinum for them to be champions in the event they also beat the Gamecocks.

Should Lloyd Mutasa and his ragtag team win this championship, which is still possible, it would complete a remarkable triumph for a side that was created from scratch at the beginning of the year after a number of established players had left for greener pastures.

Many believed this was just supposed to be a transitional phase for these Glamour Boys but they have punched above their weight, refusing to be bullied from the equation, and now and again emerging from a crisis to find a way to compete for the biggest prize of them all.

It’s likely that many neutrals will be praying for an FC Platinum win, if not for the love of an underdog then for the romance of just seeing a club from outside the country’s two biggest cities finally winning a league title in more than half-a-century.

In a week in which the country bad farewell to its long-serving President and welcomed another one yesterday, amid pomp, fanfare and great expectations, there are some who believe that fate has already decided already that winds of change should also blow in domestic football.

After all, even Arsene Wenger, who has spent more than two decades as the manager of Arsenal, has been speaking about his possible successors, indicating he will leave when his current contract expires.

And, just in case people have forgotten, there is also the Spencer Maguwa theory in which this Dynamos and Liverpool-supporting business executive predicted, seven games ago, that FC Platinum will be crowned champions this year.

So far, every FC Platinum result he predicted has come true and, for goodness sake, he even predicted they will finish the season with 72 points and DeMbare will be second.

The gods must surely be crazy.