MONDAY, 8.00AM:
TWO Bafana Bafana players, Brendan Augustine and Naughty Mokoena, have been sent home after going nightclubbing in the early hours of Sunday morning.
And coach Philippe Troussier has threatened to quit once again, saying: “I have received a message from South Africa that they don’t want a foreign coach. Perhaps it is time for me to go now.”
With two days to go before the deciding match against Saudi Arabia, there are fears that morale has been damaged by in-fighting.
FRIDAY, 8.00AM:
BAFANA BAFANA need to beat Saudi Arabia 2-0 to keep alive their World Cup chances after their draw against Denmark on Thursday night. South Africa coach Philippe Troussier is confident the South Africans can beat the Saudis, who lost 4-0 to France on Thursday night. Denmark will have to lose 2-0 to France to let the South Africans through.
SPORT BRIEFS
SWALLOWS TOO MUCH
AN unnamed Moroka Swallows soccer player was arrested in Tembisa on Saturday afternoon for drunken driving. The man, 28, drove through a fence in Tsenelong after losing control of his vehicle. He will appear in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Monday, charged with drunken driving and malicious damage to property.
QUKA BACK TO COURT
FORMER world boxing champion Patrick Quka plans a second court attempt to recover the South African bantamweight title, of which he was recently stripped. A failed urgent application in the Johannesburg High Court against boxing authorities and new champion Sandile Sobandla will be renewed. Quka was stripped of his South African title after a fight in Denmark on June 5, after defying a South African Boxing Control Commission ban on the fight. The commission says it refused Quka permission to fight as he was contracted to fight Sobandle on June 21.
VAN DEVENTER TAKES BAJA
OFF-ROAD quad racer Vicus van Deventer won the Portuguese Baja Telecel 1000 on Saturday, adding to a Paris-Dakar experimental class victory earlier this year. Van Deventer brought his 350cc Yamaha Banshee over the line 15 minutes ahead of the second finisher in a field of 40.