Chiefs juggernaut can’t be stopped by opulence

lightfully dipped one over Brilliant Khuzwayo, but the Glamour Boys are made of much sterner stuff these days.

Opulence, under heavy attack after taking the lead and not even a wall made up of a million Madiba R100 notes, stacked across the goal-line, would have prevented George Lebese’s side-footed shot from entering the net.

You have to say Downs goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene had a moment of mental load-shedding — a complete blackout of the brain — when he wittingly watched Lebese’s shot cruise into the goal.

Opulence then went on the offensive but Modise could not glance his header on target to get a winning goal that would have made sense of the gluttony on display at FNB Stadium.

The game’s purists are cloyed whenever they look at the Sundowns team sheet and match it with their current position on the Premiership table.

The soul of the game is protected only by the rivalry between the teams’ coaches, Mosi-

To watch the chess game they played yesterday was to see a masterclass in coaching

mane and Kaizer Chiefs’ Stuart Baxter. It is a venerable clash of two wily, cunning, and intelligent football minds — the closest the PSL will see to Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho against Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger.

To watch them play the chess game they played yesterday was to see a masterclass in coaching, the kind to define this era.

If Downs could not stop this Chiefs juggernaut, who could? When referee Thando Ndzandzela blew for full-time to maintain Chiefs’ 12-point lead over Sundowns, you could almost see the Premiership trophy making its way across the Jukskei River, stripping itself of the yellow and blue décolletage, heading for Soweto.