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Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya

Krol: The turning point for beloved Bucs

There is a tendency in South African football to use one’s knowledge -- or rather ignorance -- as analysis in itself. If you know a name of a player or a coach, then that person is good. If you don’t, he is bad. You might remember the first ti...

Views: 411 | 2 Comments » | posted on Friday, June 13th, 2008 | Tags: Bucs, Orlando Pirates, Rudi Krol

It’s football, damnit!

First, let me state here that I had nothing to do with the tag under which this blog is appearing -- that of calling football socc… I can’t even write the dirty word in full. Calling the beautiful game by that dreadful Americanism is one sure ...

Views: 85 | 1 Comment » | posted on Friday, June 13th, 2008 | Tags: football, soccer

Bucs: A love unreturned

As French author and philosopher Albert Camus once said: “All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football”, I too owe everything I know about life, love and loyalty, pleasure and pain, pride and prejudice to having be...

Views: 293 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 | Tags: Bucs, Orlando Pirates, Soccer

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Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya is an Orlando Pirates supporter who earns a living as an associate editor/sports editor for the Mail & Guardian. He has never made promises that his love affair with the Buccaneers will not affect his professional judgement when carrying out his responsibilities, and he is not about to. Like many who swear by that proud institution of our people, he is sometimes mistaken for a die-hard supporter. One either supports Pirates or they don't. There is no middle ground.