/ 15 May 1997

Bafana Bafana face England minus stars

THURSDAY, 10.00AM:

BAFANA BAFANA will lose some key stars for the friendly against England at Old Trafford on May 24, becuse the Premier Soccer League title race interferes with the international.

Bafana Bafana will have no members from the top two teams in the Premier League, Kaizer Chiefs and Manning Rangers, who have pulled their players out of the national side. Chiefs’ Neil Tovey and goalkeeper Brian Baloyi, and Rangers’ scorer George Koumantarakis, have been withdrawn from the game.

Pirates’ defender Gavin Lane, who was injured in a car accident, may be sidelined, and midfield player Eric Tinkler has been claimed for the weekend by his Italian Serie A club Cagliari.