The "roaring" 1920s saw the US economy explode in a manner befitting an octopus encircling an unsuspecting prey. Driven by Europe's bankruptcy after World War I, the Marshall Plan ensured that apart from propping up capitalist states in the Old World...
Orlando Pirates coach and Dutch football legend Ruud Krol must think he is in some kind of bizarre dream.
Reports, radio phone-ins and internet forums have seen him painted as some kind of dead man walking. Which to be fair is not an unusual posit...
By Siphiwe Hlongwane
There seems to be a big problem brewing between technical directors and head coaches in South African football. With the new PSL season looming on the horizon, a number of coaces have lost their jobs and are seemingly being re...
It's no secret that South Africa is once again at a crossroads. Racial tensions between black and white South Africans have reached their highest levels since the 1993 assassination of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani which threatened ...
By Sydwell S Hlongwane
SuperSport United have proved their dominance in the the Absa Premiership, winning the league championship three times in a row. They have proved beyond any reasonable doubt that they are the best team in the South African l...
Ke nako! It is time!
That's right soccer fans, 2010 has arrived and the country is being revved up for the biggest month long party we have seen since the 2003 cricket and 1995 rugby World Cups. Much has been made of SA's ability (with many of tho...
Can somebody please explain how Fifa goes about running "world" football?
If it truly claims to represent the interests of world football, why is it that Europe and the Union of European Football Associations (Uefa) seem to get a better deal than...
With the sun finally out, we should all be seeking the great outdoors. But if the local and foreign soccer leagues keep producing the first-class buffet of this last weekend, then it may prove too much to relinquish the TV remote.
From lunchtime ...
As Bafana Bafana approach what might turn out to be the most defining game of the progress made (or lack thereof), more doubts have been cast about the man at the helm, Joel Natalino Santana.
He will face the biggest game of his coaching career wh...
With Liverpool suddenly finding a knack of winning ugly, Chelsea mixing style at home and strife on the road, and Man United – with Fletcher as leading scorer?! -- still getting the engine started, this league race may yet match last season’s for...
