”Don’t come near the FNB Stadium on Saturday afternoon if you haven’t got a ticket,” was the warning from Kaizer Chiefs head of security Thami Mayaluza when he announced on Friday that the eagerly awaited Premier Soccer League derby against Orlando Pirates was a sell-out.

In spite of a head-on collision with bitter rivals Jomo Cosmos, the Kaizer Chiefs management has decided to continue a ”home from home” policy and will play their Coca-Cola Cup quarterfinal at Rustenburg’s Olympia Park next Sunday. The Premier Soccer League announced dates and venues for the quarterfinals.

It turned out as though pre-ordained when Kaizer Chiefs were pitted against Jomo Cosmos in a ”best of enemies” Coca-Cola Cup quarterfinal on Monday. The bitterness between the clubs stems from the long-standing feuding and fighting between respective owners Kaizer Motaung and Jomo Sono.

As if he did not have enough problems on his mind, Kaizer Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp approaches Saturday’s Coca-Cola Cup clash against Classic in Rustenburg with six players having picked up two yellow cards — with a third booking meaning an automatic suspension.

Whatever else Benedict Vilakazi might be, he is a competitor — and it was this fiercely competitive instinct that enabled the diminutive midfielder to score the all-important 79th-minute goal that gave Premier Soccer League leaders Orlando Pirates a closely contested 1-0 victory over Moroka Swallows on Wednesday night.

Like an ailing share on the stock market, Bafana Bafana on Wednesday slipped to 46th place in the Fifa world rankings — the most dire position in the past 10 years. South Africa had already touched a 10-year low in September, and a nightmare sequence of defeats has resulted in a further drop of four places in the past month.

”Hurtful”, ”damaging” and ”disturbing” was how team manager Bobby Motaung on Monday described the behaviour of the Kaizer Chiefs supporters who caused coach Ernst Middendorp and the Amakhosi players to leave Johannesburg Stadium under police escort after the 1-1 Premier Soccer League draw against Moroka Swallows.

It’s hardly a phenomenon these days for a soccer team to proclaim they were robbed. But after an intense, emotionally charged 1-1 Premier Soccer League derby draw between old rivals Moroka Swallows and Kaizer Chiefs at Johannesburg Stadium on Sunday afternoon, both sides were echoing this sentiment.