Bra Stu may find himself in the same dog box as Eymael

● The rumour mill is on a whirlwind and speculation is spinning out of control with news that the old is about to become the new down the south of Jozi. The old is Stuart Baxter.

The new is that he is bound to return to bark the loudest as the top dog at Kaizer Chiefs.

If it happens, it will confirm that old Baxter loves rekindling his romance with his old squeezes.

He was with Bafana Bafana before the 2006 World Cup. He left after an unsuccessful campaign to qualify the team for the greatest football fiesta in Germany.

After the SA Football Association (Safa) whispered sweet nothings in his ear, a smitten Baxter did like a Zulu maiden getting weak in the knees as a silvertongued courtier serenades her.

Back in each other's arms the coach and country were, joined at the hip in their express wish to take their love affair to Russia and display to all and sundry that their relationship was tighter than tongue and saliva.

But the road to the 2018 Fifa World Cup proved a slippery slope and destination Russia a bridge too far.

They had to settle for Egypt before noisy neighbours and jealous lovers of the past brought about their break-up.

That jealous lover, read Kaizer Chiefs, had been busy promising heaven on earth to Baxter while he was still in an entanglement with Safa.

But with the memory of how the silver cup was unceremoniously broken between him and the jealous lover after the latter failed to fulfill his wishlist still vividly fresh on his mind, Baxter ignored the advances.

Once bitten twice shy the Briton must have thought.

Yearning for an adventure, he yanked his way to the east. A job awaited at the world beaters league in the Indian Super

It was clearly a moment of the lift not going all the way upstairs on a grievously subject

League. Odisha FC the new lover.

Odisha FC showed Baxter the door for mouthing offensive remarks during a post-match conference.

Aggrieved by what he perceived unjust match officiating, Baxter blurted: “You need decisions to go your way, and they didn’t.

“I don’t know when we are going to get a penalty. I think one of my players will have to rape someone or get raped himself if he was going to get a penalty.”

Completely unacceptable, screamed Odisha in condemnation of the offensive remarks.

Observers here on the southern tip of the African continent wondered out loud if Baxter had not learnt anything about the levels of high gender-based violence having lived and worked in SA for so many years.

If the atrocious act of rape is bad in SA, it is even worse in India. It was clearly a moment of the lift not going all the way upstairs (which is possible in a country where load-shedding is almost second nature).

Not so long ago Chippa United hired Luc Eymael, a man who had coached in SA, a country that wore racism as a badge of honour during 46 years of legislated apartheid.

Hanging over Eymael’s head were inglorious remarks the combustible Belgian made in reference to the supporters of Yanga Africans, who campaign in the Tanzania Premier League.

Calling Yanga supporters illiterate and accusing them of shouting like monkeys revealed Eymael’s true colours of how he sees black people.

He had coached Black Leopards, Free State Stars and Polokwane City in this neck of the woods. Only an illiterate numbskull would not have learnt anything about having lived and worked for three clubs in this part of the world.

The outrage and condemnation against that decision by Chippa Mpengesi resulted in him having to dump the idea entirely.

Chiefs’ courtship of Baxter may end up fruitless if someone decides to kick up a storm over his India rape remarks.