Category: Sports

Ambitious KwaZulu-Natal side AmaZulu have two of Bafana Bafana’s greatest ever strikers – Benni McCarthy and Siyabonga Nomvethe – now managing the club. READ | GAVIN HUNT IDENTIFIES NO 1 AREA OF CONCERN FOR KAIZER CHIEFS McCarthy was appointed coach of the club last week and has moved quickly to enlist the services of Nomvethe […]

Egyptian Mohamed Salah shot to the top of the English Premier League Golden Boot race by bagging a brace on Saturday as Liverpool demolished Crystal Palace 7-0. MO SALAH HAS SCORED 13 GOALS IN 13 MATCHES The 28-year-old sharpshooter has averaged a goal a game since the league season kicked off, netting 13 times in […]

Former Proteas all-rounder Jacques Kallis has been appointed as England’s latest batting consultant for next month’s Test series in Sri Lanka. According to the Cricinfo website, the England Cricket Board (ECB) last week stepped up its search for full-time appointments for their batting, pace- and spin-bowling coaching vacancies, with applications due to close on January 10. KALLIS’ […]

Orlando Pirates have won their first round, 1st leg CAF Confederation Cup clash against GD Sagrada Esperanca in Angola. The Buccaneers won 1-0 and will take an all-important away goal into the return leg on Wednesday, January 6. The venue and kick-off time for that match is yet to be confirmed. THEMBINKOSI LORCH BROKE THE […]

It was a splendid afternoon for South African football with both Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates earning crucial continental away victories. Mamelodi Sundowns overcome Botswana outfit Jwaneng Galaxy FC in the CAF Champions League thanks to early goals in both the first and second halves via Mothobi Mvala and Peter Shalulile while a late Thembinkosi […]

Kaizer Chiefs’ campaign can look a lot more prettier than it currently does should the Amakhosi qualify for the CAF Champions League group stages however standing in their way are 13 time Girabola Champions Primeiro de Agosto. Kaizer Chiefs have won just three out of 13 fixtures in all competitions so far this season however […]

A look at 15 moments in sport during an extraordinary, coronavirus-disrupted 2020:  READ | FROM KOBE TO DIEGO, 12 SPORTING GREATS WHO DIED IN 2020 Bayern sweep to Champions League title When the pandemic forced UEFA to transform the final stages of the Champions League into a mini-tournament in Lisbon, Bayern looked the best team […]

Lionel Messi beat Pele’s record of goals for a single club when he scored his 644th for Barcelona in a 3-0 victory against Valladolid on Tuesday. ‘NEVER THOUGHT I’D BREAK RECORDS’ – MESSI The Argentina forward scored Barca’s third goal when he collected Pedri’s backheel and struck the ball past goalkeeper Jordi Masip in the […]

Argentina captain Pablo Matera said he was just “an immature boy” when he posted tweets deemed to be racist and which saw him briefly suspended from the Pumas team earlier this month. PABLO MATERA: I HAVE GROWN UP Matera, 27, told Canal Plus on Sunday that he had “grown up” since the tweets of 2011 […]

Orlando Pirates coach Josef Zinnbauer will on Tuesday, December 22 begin a CAF Confederation Cup campaign he hopes will end with him becoming the first German to lift the trophy.   NO GERMAN COACH HAS WON THE CAF TOURNAMENT Spanish and Swiss coaches have each won the African equivalent of the Europa League twice and […]