By hook or by crook Orlando Pirates have been crowned the new Betway Premier Soccer League champs.
While winning the League trophy will taste like honey in the palates of the staunch Pirates supporters, to Mamelodi Sundowns this state of affairs will taste like bitter medicine.
This after relegation- threatened Orbit College FC scored two own goals to hand the Buccaneers the trophy on the proverbial silver platter.
Orbit College didn’t play like men who were trying to avoid the relegation axe.
Their play was casual and lacked urgency.
And those two own goals were deliberate and not due to any pressure whatsoever.
In football a player who commits stupid blunders is called a cow (inkomo) and the Orbit goalkeeper Sabelo Nkomo lived up to his name by brazenly punching the ball into his own net to give Pirates the lead just before recess.
Then immediately after recess his teammate Ndumiso Ngiba took over from where Nkomo had left off by also scoring an own goal of his own.
As to why the coach of Orbit didn’t replace these two idiots (Nkomo and Ngiba) is a mystery.
Former French coach Paul Dolezar who coached several teams in South Africa way back would have replaced the two fools immediately before describing their inexplicable performance as criminal.
Indeed what these two stooges (Nkomo and Ngiba) did is criminal.
They were clearly bribed to score those own goals.
I am now convinced that by failing to score for themselves any goals, Pirates are not championship-winning material yet.
They still don’t have that temperament to rise to the occasion when the chips are down.
They are chokers in actual fact.
On the other hand Sundowns also didn’t deserve to win the League either.
Their performance was unpredictable, irritable and irritating on many occasions.
I have been watching football for many decades and I can tell you without fear of contradiction that this is one of the worst Sundowns teams I have ever seen.
No real strikers; no creative players in the midfield, no stable defence and to make matters worse, their goalkeeper Williams is off form.
Anyway let’s see how Sundowns performs against FAR in the Caf Champions League Final.
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