He could not do it for almost a year while with Orlando Pirates, but Phumudzo Menenzhe scored the crucial opening goal that paved the way for Wits University’s 3-0 Premier League win over Maritzburg United only minutes after coming onto the field at Bidvest Stadium as a second-half substitute on Saturday afternoon.
Don’t be surprised by the fact that SuperSport United mesmerised Kaizer Chiefs in a vibrant Premier Soccer League showpiece at Loftus on Saturday night and humbled Amakhosi on the eve of the club’s 37th birthday with a comprehensive 2-0 victory.
Manchester United might travel to South Africa again before the start of the 2007/08 English Premiership season, said Sundowns coach Gordon Igesund on Wednesday after returning from a visit to a number of leading English clubs during the Premier Soccer League’s mid-season holiday break.
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/ 23 December 2006
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) can ban Pitso Mosimane for life from games and affairs under its jurisdiction, but its brazen declaration that its recent suspension of the beleaguered Supersport United and past interim Bafana Bafana coach applied to ”all soccer” is invalid.
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/ 23 December 2006
A world ranking of 67th is not exactly the kind of credentials pending World Cup hosts should be proud to display — but, at least, the footballers of Bafana Bafana can hold their heads above water when it comes to the ”battle of the sexes”.
Their female equivalents, Banyana Banyana, are placed 71st in the women’s world rankings.
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/ 21 December 2006
Newly crowned Telkom Knockout champions Silver Stars secured Premier Soccer League boasting rights for the Christmas recess when they cemented their position at the top of the PSL table after a gruelling, uncompromising 0-0 draw against defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 20 December 2006
The wrath of the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee has come down heavily on Supersport United’s Pitso Mosimane and Andre Arendse — with the coach and goalkeeper being suspended and handed heavy fines. The protracted case related to the Premier League game in which Sundowns were beaten 1-0 by Black Leopards at Thohoyandou last week.
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/ 20 December 2006
Having annexed the R4,25-million winners’ prize in the Telkom Knockout competition and currently heading the Premier Soccer League (PSL) table, high-flying Silver Stars face a moment of truth when they play defending PSL champions Mamelodi Sundowns at the Super Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 19 December 2006
Silver Stars CEO Larry Brookstone called it ”the other final”. Mamelodi Sundowns coach Gordon Igesund saw it as ”a psychological boost that could decide the premier league title”. Clearly, Wednesday night’s Premier Soccer League (PSL) game between log leaders Silver Stars and PSL champions Sundowns at the Super Stadium is of some considerable significance.
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/ 16 December 2006
All good fairy tales have a happy ending, as Cinderella Premier Soccer League club Silver Stars discovered when they beat Ajax Cape Town 3-1 in the Telkom Knockout final at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium on Saturday afternoon and pocketed the record R4,25-million winners’ prize.