”Kaizer Chiefs have lived up to their billing as pioneers and innovators of local football, albeit in ways that they would not be proud of,” writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya. ”If the Premier Soccer League has its way, Chiefs will also be the first local side to be forced to play in an empty stadium.”

The best club team in the world, if international players’ organisation Fifpro is to be believed, is AC Milan. Yes, the Italian side beaten on penalties by Liverpool in last season’s European Cup final in Istanbul, the outfit incapable of holding on to a 3-0 half-time lead, managed to get no fewer than five players into the world’s best side.

Can it really be two whole years since Gary Player, in the gloaming at The Links, rolled back the years and wanted to box with Jack Nicklaus over the result of the Presidents Cup? This week, battle is rejoined at the Robert Trent Jones course in Virginia, the venue for all three of the previous encounters held on American soil.

Nothing in domestic soccer shows the problems that beset the game better than the South African Football Association (Safa) national executive committee elections held every four years. This is an occasion when regional representatives should decide who can develop and channel the game in the right direction for another term.