Cosafa ‘Champions League’ Dreams
A significant part of Southern Africa – the region that’s known in football terms as the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) – is a desert. It is dry and barren even though it has produced gemstones that have drawn envious glances from the rest of the world. Some of those gems, such as Mozambique’s Eusébio, stretching […]
Platinum Stars: A Team With God On its Side
There are some songs sung at football matches that would make religious men pray for the damned souls singing them and hold tight their rosaries. There is one about the devil – sometimes redeemer in football, depending on who you support that day – the referee.It goes something like: Hey wena, referee, ujaja amasimba! […]
Black and White Dreams of Thunder
If there is a heaven for football fans I am fated to never make it. I have accepted my fate, an after-life in football hell, where I will face eternal damnation with all the works, including blaring vuvuzelas, the Carling Black Label Cup on rotation and the company of Luis Suarez. For I broke […]