‘THE BIGGEST PATRIOTIC ACT THAT MOST PEOPLE ENGAGE IN IS CHEERING ON THEIR...
OUR good friends at 53 Livingstone Avenue exploded in anger on Thursday, livid that we had dared to criticise Ashford Mamelodi, the FIFA development point man in this region, for his shocking, if not...
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Sharuko on Saturday THEY say you never know what you have until it’s gone and the world has been treated to a number of songs, over the years, centred around that theme, from the hard-core rap of Kanye...
View ArticleTHE GLAMOUR BOYS’ GOAL TOSSED AWAY INTO THE DUSTBIN, NEVER TO BE CELEBRATED,...
ALOIS Bunjira and Ezra Tshisa Sibanda this week compared two high-profile matches abandoned in Zimbabwe and South Africa this year, because of power failure, and the sharp difference of how the...
View ArticleEVEN THE GREAT SIR ALEX EVENTUALLY REALISED HE COULDN’T CONTINUE FIGHTING THE...
POOR Bongani Mafu must be wondering what the hell did he plunge himself into when he applied for, and got the tough job to coach Highlanders, with the mandate to rebuild this iconic Zimbabwe football...
View ArticleAS THE GATHERING IN MZILIKAZI ON THURSDAY SHOWED, MASHINKILA-KHUMALO WAS MUCH...
ON the stage of the packed McDonald Hall in Mzilikazi on Thursday, Rahman Gumbo sat on my left side, his body shaking with grief, his soul tormented by pain and, now and again, I could hear him choking...
View ArticleWE HAVE THE MOMENTUM BUT GUINEA HAVE THE PEDIGREE AND THAT’S WHY IT’S STILL A...
THE last time I was in Conakry with the Warriors, Valinhos was the coach and Benjani the captain and — after 90 minutes — we celebrated that we had dared to take our hunt into the Elephants’ heartland,...
View ArticleON SUNDAY, COSTA WAS A THROWBACK TO A TIME WHEN MEN OF STEEL PATROLLED OUR...
IT was supposed to be the week we should have spent analysing that epic battle, in which our brave Warriors stood toe-to-toe against a herd of charging Elephants, in a fiery contest which ended all...
View ArticleTHE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE BLOWING ACROSS FOOTBALL, FROM ZURICH TO HARARE, AND...
IT wasn’t beautiful, football’s version of a Berlin Wall built on the green grass of the National Sports Stadium, the Glamour Boys — like Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle 41 years ago —...
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“I AM A VISIONARY, ZIFA WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN, ZIMBABWE’S WORLD RANKING WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST 50,” — CUTHBERT DUBE, SPEAKING IN 2010.THE BBC Focus on Africa programme reserved a segment, on...
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‘SO LITTLE DONE, SO LITTLE TIME LEFT,’ AND EVERY WORD IN THE PHRASE APPEARED...
Sharuko On Saturday THE end came where it had all begun, one sunny autumn morning in 2010, just two months before Boys from Brazil brought their samba football here, and the FIFA World Cup bandwagon...
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A FOOLISH COACH CALLED BIG SAM AND HEROIC MIGHTY WARRIORS ARE WORLDS APART
Sharuko on Saturday THOMAS KWENAITE, one of the pundits on SuperSport’s weekly programme, “Soccer Africa”, on Thursday night said the Mighty Warriors could write one of football’s greatest fairy tales...
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On a chilly November night in 1998, amid the beautiful chaos that had greeted Dynamos’ historic qualification for the CAF Champions League final, I stood in the car park of the National Sports Stadium,...
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A TALE OF TWO CANDIDATES
Sharuko on Saturday FOOTBALL is such a very powerful game it sparked a war, known as the La Guerra del Futbol, between South American countries, El Salvador and Honduras, on July 14 1969, as the battle...
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OUR STEELY WARRIOR
Sharuko on Saturday PAUL GUNDANI did not have the poster boy appearance of Peter Ndlovu, or the striking boyish looks of Benjamin Nkonjera, but his raw power and incredible athleticism, was a dynamic...
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AN IRONY THAT BAFFLES ME
When Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper, The Sun, declared on its front page that it was in support of the Tories, on the eve of the British elections this year, it was hailed as professionalism and...
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IS IT OVER FOR LION KING?
Sharuko on Saturday IN the feel-good environment of the rains that came down on Wednesday, and all the joy and hope that they brought, celebrations were expected to explode in Zvishavane and the City...
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Sadly, we are a sporting nation always desperate to forget our heroes
Robson Sharuko ON Wednesday, the global football family paused for a moment to remember the day, 10 years ago, a Northern Irish magician, one of the greatest players of all-time, George Best, died in a...
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Rodreck Mutuma is a shame to everything that a Prince should stand for but,...
Sharuko on Saturday ON January 25 this year, English football marked the 20th anniversary of one of its most dramatic moments when Eric Cantona exploded into a rage at Selhurst Park, after being sent...
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THE SPECTACULAR FALLOUT BETWEEN ZIFA AND PASUWA HAS LEFT MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS THE public outrage that has greeted ZIFA’s ill-timed and shock decision to fire Callisto Pasuwa from his job as...
View ArticleMR HAYATOU, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR CAF TEAM OF THE YEAR AWARD AND WE WILL KEEP OUR...
ON Christmas Day in 2014, Leicester City were bottom of the table in the English Premiership, with just 10 points from 17 games, and — if history was anything to go by — the Flying Foxes were set to be...
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