Call for kit that sends pulses racing

THE all-new, all-white, once-off special edition Bafana Bafana kit is about as exciting as watching Danny Jordaan’s beard grow. Bafana Bafana were brilliant as a team when their kit was extravagant and looked like an ugly Easter egg back in the 1990s. As the strips have become increasingly bland, so has their football. So, please Nike, when you launch the new SA kit proper let’s have something that sets the pulses racing, with a few eccentric lightning bolts, flashes and stars here and there. This is, after all, African football.

GAVIN Hunt gave a rare glimpse of his movie-buff side that had the 20-something-old journos interviewing him after Bidvest Wits’ 3-2 win against SuperSport United on Tuesday bewildered. Describing a disallowed goal by Victor “Mr Ref” Gomes, the Wits coach said: “Great movement, good football, final touch — goal. And then they go down and they score at the other end, then it’s The Guns of Navarone . You guys won't remember

The Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck, 1965 — it was a movie. When they bombed the Germans.” With blank stares and nervous laughter as a response, Hunt gave up, saying: “OK, so, ja, that’s it.”

MAMELODI Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane could not prevent himself from giggling at Orlando Pirates counterpart Eric Tinkler’s admission at their teams’ post-match press conference on Tuesday that the Bucs care taker coach had only learned about Lehlohonolo Majoro’s signing in the morning papers. Then again, as reports go, so apparently did the player’s agent, Tim Sukazi, his exclub Kaizer Chiefs, his girlfriend, mother-in-law, best friend and best friend’s sister. Majoro’s transfer saga in the past few months has been pure entertainment. The man is as elusive as a noisy mosquito on a hot summer’s night.

CHAMPAGNE flowed at the PSL’s announcement on Friday that they had nailed down exclusive rights to betting on its fixtures. And why not? The deal is going to add millions to the league’s already bulging coffers. “By the time we leave here, we’ll have forgotten why we came here,” hack Jonty Mark observed wittily, although we noticed he did not partake of the bubbly.