Still in a state of reverberating shock after the defeat against relegation-threatened Bloemfontein Celtic on Sunday, Premier Soccer League log leaders Mamelodi Sundowns have received some reassuring news for their revamped PSL game against Santos at Loftus on Thursday night.
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/ 28 February 2006
It’s a rumour that has spread through Premier Soccer League soccer circles like wildfire. But the first official indication that top Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Calvin Marlin is heading from Supersport United to compulsive-spending Mamelodi Sundowns next season was provided on Monday by Brazilians coach Neil Tovey.
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/ 26 February 2006
Gangling, 2m-tall Senegalese striker Mame Niang emerged a gallant hero and a cynically constructed victim in Moroka Swallows’ needlessly tough 2-1 Premier Soccer League win over Black Leopards at Orlando Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Niang’s aerial ascendancy had the Limpopo club’s defence at sixes and sevens.
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/ 26 February 2006
They huffed and they puffed and found themselves with a host of scoring opportunities, but ultimately Kaizer Chiefs were entangled in Jomo Cosmos’ disciplined, defensive web during a goalless Premier Soccer League draw at the FNB Stadium on Saturday night.
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/ 25 February 2006
The shock news that Mamelodi Sundowns’ Venezuelan international goalkeeper Rafael Dudamel could be out of soccer for the remainder of the season highlighted a mixed bag of bad and good news from the reinstated Premier Soccer League log leaders on Friday.
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/ 24 February 2006
Would the masterful and mellifluous, near-genius skills of world number one Roger Federer have surfaced in all their glory had his parents decided to remain in South Africa instead of returning to Switzerland soon after their marriage in the late 1970s?
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/ 22 February 2006
Tell Neil Tovey that Wednesday night’s needle Premier League title race showdown against Kaizer Chiefs at Loftus is effectively worth six points and the Mamelodi Sundowns coach proclaims in a matter-of-fact manner: ”It’s worth more than that.” ”It’s a game we simply have to win,” says the Sundowns coach.
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/ 21 February 2006
Mamelodi Sundowns emerged from the stormy Setsoto Stadium cauldron with a 1-0 first-round, first-leg CAF Champions League win against Lesotho champions Likhopo over the weekend — and an assortment of good and bad news before Wednesday’s crucial Premier Soccer League game against Kaizer Chiefs.
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/ 19 February 2006
Defending champions Kaizer Chiefs limped to the top of the Premier Soccer League log with an anxious, unimpressive 2-1 victory over Dynamos on a slippery, rain-affected FNB Stadium pitch on Saturday night. Meanwhile, Bush Bucks beat a 10-man Jomo Cosmos 2-1 in a fast and entertaining match played in Katlehong on Saturday.
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/ 18 February 2006
These are early days yet and the South African Football Association may need the wisdom of Solomon in making the final choice — but according to a public poll instituted by Kickoff magazine, Gordon Igesund is the front-runner in the race to be the next Bafana Bafana coach. The smooth-talking Igesund has received 28,5% of the votes in the ongoing poll.