DeMbare: A dangerous mukoko

is not being run well aims their arrows at Mubaiwa yet that is not where real power lies.

Bernard Marriot and his clique of aging board members are dragging DeMbare into oblivion and poor Mubaiwa has to take the flake for it all.

And the tragedy with this once glamorous club is that the abnormal is normal.

No matter how filthy it looks in that blue many still want to be associated with, several lobby for the chance to lead it even after watching others burn their fingers from their association with this beast.

Marriot is understood to have a list of potential replacements should Mubaiwa decides to walk away.

They claim to be seven million but the DeMbare fans have little say in how the club is run.

Instead of questioning how the club is administered the Dynamos faithful fight petty wars and are heavily divided into HKD and Harare Chapter among several other factions.

A fortnight ago there was a nasty Facebook spate between the vocal Freddy “Pasuwa” Mugadza and former DeMbare defender Stanley “Samora” Chirambadare.

Mugadza claimed they pair fell out after he refused to provide financial aid to Chirambadare’s “street football academy.”

“From that moment I declined to offer any financial support Stanley Chirambadare began attacking me and also attacking my inner circle and my brother (Phillip) too,” posted Mugadza on the platform that Mark Elliot Zuckerberg and his partner blessed us with.

“I told Stanley Chirambadare that I had no interest in fighting him back but he continued attacking me until I decided to fight back and tell Stanley that at Dynamos Football Club he was a liability. . .

“When Stanley was the Dynamos left back the team suffered tremendously and up today I still feel the pain of those defeats.

“Stanley Chirambadare was exploited by the legendary Adamski (Adam Ndlovu), Boy Ndlovu, Morgan Nkathazo and many more strikers. That means in other words he was the weakest link in the two years he played for Dynamos Football Club.”

Samora would have none of it and shot back spectacularly.

“I was a highway but I played and you (are) talking about it.You (were) dancing kongonya like you still doing now,” thundered Chirambadare.

“You are bitter that as I worked as a senior tax officer, I also played football. I never stole from the game like your brother.

“You even hate me because when I coached the team under Keegan (Mumba)

“I refused players spending time in your saloon as they were players not barbers.

“I like one thing, I played and there is nothing you can do about it. I’m part of relevant history.”

Mugadza denies that his brother Phillip benefitted from being DeMbare chairman and claims that they actually used to bail out the team from their business coffers.

The Mugadza versus Chirambadare tiff is just one of several turf wars that are rocking the Dynamos family at a time when players are threatening to go on strike over unpaid signing on fees.

Christian Ntouba Epoupa wants out yet the DeMbare fans who are supposed to make their team’s board answerable are busy lobbying to replace the fired Graham Mafoko in the club’s executive.

Sir exits the scene!