Kick Off

Beating old foes Al Ahly

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There might have been mitigating circumstan­ces for the Egyptian giants Al Ahly, suffering under the strictures of Ramadan and forced to play away from Cairo in the wake of the security clampdown on football in the north African country.

But that should not take anything away from one of Pirates’ finest victories

– humiliatin­g Africa’s top club side 3-0 at home in what is the biggest setback they have suffered at home in all their decades of dominance in the African Champions Laue.

It was a Group A match moved to the seaside resort of El Gouna and supposed to be played behind closed doors, although several hundred managed to get

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Thandani Ntshumayel­o

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