Detective Jimmy McNulty once said in The Wire, when referring to lives on the street versus the way politics interacts with those lives, "It just never connects." He was known to be a brilliant detective, but self-destructive, at the cost of those ...
I have been watching very closely the ability of sports "managers" getting worse and worse. To my mind pops Boxing SA, Athletics SA, rugby at most times has had some question hanging over it although not in the last eight or so years, SA football and...
The cricket season hasn't started as well as Gary Kirsten would have hoped. Rusty South Africa were outplayed by Australia at Newlands, and while I belong to the school of thought that doesn't care about Twenty20, there are many others who do. The Pr...
So we entered what we all thought would be a sustainable and successful era of growth for SA football. We hosted an amazing Fifa World Cup in 2010 under coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, who was assisted by current head coach Pitso Mosimane.The next hur...
We continue to hear of reports of bribery and corruption in Fifa. Why should it be immune? And like I always say, where there's smoke there's fire. We have Mr Jack Warner who's being supported at home, but who resigned from Fifa, which means we will ...
We have a problem in this country. Our standard of coaching is not acceptable. Why, is the question we should all be asking. When this amazing country became free and fair we opened up the opportunities by another 45 million people at the time, ...
Upon surfing the net this afternoon, I see that Safa are headed in the direction of a name change, among other things, for Bafana Bafana.
Well, it's about damn time isn't it?
Safa, which is the one sports body in South Africa that will always b...
After Amajita's failure to qualify for the Under-20 African Youth Championships, South African football was dealt another blow last weekend when the Under-17s (Amajimbos) were booted out of the Under-17 qualifiers by Burkina Faso. This is a sad situa...
Bantwana Bantwana made history by becoming the first South African women's national team to represent the country in a Women's World Cup. The fact that it is in the under-17 level means that there is hope for women’s football in the near future, pr...
A 3-2 defeat by Lesotho last weekend means that South Africa's Under-20 national team will miss out on the next edition of the African youth championships as well as the world youth championships.
This is yet another big blow for the progress of S...
