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Bobby on a merry beat of madness in trying times

● Bobby on a merry beat of madness.

Among a merry crowd of men and women who have converged for what seems to be a party, a man wearing a blueish shirt and whitish pants is the only one with what appears to be a mask.

The chap is the only sensible one of the lot — except that his mask is around his chin. That is an indication that the video, which has gone viral, was taken during these trying lockdown times.

The women are happily puffing hubbly and heartily quaffing bubbly. In a catchy dance routine, the flowers of the nation also flaunt and squeeze what their mammas gave them.

The guy in question appears to be in conversation with a prominent person who is none other than Bobby Motaung, the Kaizer Chiefs team manager.

Now this columnist is least concerned with Bobby and his friends being on the beat of flouting the lockdown regulations and showing their apparent immunity to the coronavirus that has killed more than 8,000 people in this country, with 493,183 infections at the time of writing.

Millions more have perished around the world.

In this land of lawlessness, there have been several instances of prominent personalities who have defied lockdown regulations. Some got a slap on the wrist and their pay suspended for a month. Others have not lived to tell the tale.

It is a matter for the anti-alcohol Panama-wearing general and his brigade in blue to investigate the breaking of the lockdown rules. I caution you not to hold your breath. We know and have seen that when it comes to enforcing the law, there are different sets of rules for the minkand-manure and the ordinary laymen. Echoes of Animal Farm? You said it.

What grates my pancreas with the video is that someone in a position of authority and influence in the SA football fraternity can behave in such an

Chiefs should put the team manager as far from the team as possible

irresponsible fashion.

One expects better from a leader and high-ranking official, especially in light of the fact that Premier Soccer League (PSL) teams will be resuming their battles in a safe bubble.

If this video was taken in the past few days, Motaung’s misbehaviour flies in the face of the stringent measures that teams have to stick to to ensure that the biologically safe environment is coronavirus free.

After months of toing and froing between the PSL and the SA Football Association you have someone behaving irrationally.

He is no different from the couple of players, let’s call them Dumb and Dumber, who were chased away from camp by their club after reporting for duty drunk. Dumb and Dumber had tested positive for Covid-19.

The club kept them away from the rest of the team so that they could undergo self-isolation following their positive results. They went on a booze binge, perhaps to celebrate testing negative. They were caught out.

Such actions represent the height of irresponsibility. It makes one wonder about the frequency of these illegal gatherings. How many of them happen and are not captured on video? How many people who participate may have contracted the virus elsewhere and spread it in these sort of shindigs?

Now that we’ve seen what we’ve seen, perhaps the appropriate thing to do for Chiefs is to make sure that they put their team manager as far away from the team as possible.

In order to put everyone at ease, his name must not feature on the list Chiefs have submitted for the contingent they will take to the biologically safe environment.

There needs to be a statement from the club condemning this thing, no?

PSL football will swing back into action on Saturday with the Nedbank Cup semifinal double header between Baroka FC against Bloemfontein Celtic and Mamelodi Sundowns locking horns with Bidvest Wits.

Here’s hoping that things will proceed swimmingly until the end, Bobby being in a merry dance of madness notwithstanding.

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