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LIBYA MIGHT HAVE CRUELLY SHATTERED OUR 2014 CHAN HOPES, BUT THEIR FAIRYTALE...
THEY might have been images plucked from the archives, but when SuperSport decided to broadcast them this week, as part of their special countdown to the 2016 CHAN finals, the sights and sounds from...
View ArticlePASUWA HAS HIS TECHNICAL SHORTCOMINGS, BUT WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO IMPROVE HIM...
FIKILE MBALULA’S furious outburst, when he described Bafana Bafana as “A BUNCH OF LOSERS,” in the wake of his country’s disastrous 2014 CHAN campaign, a first round humiliation handed in their...
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THERE IS A TIME TO COME AND A TIME TO GO AND TWINE PHIRI FEELS HIS TIME TO GO...
THE Dynamos team of 1997-1998 can justifiably claim, in a game where results will always be the ultimate barometer to measure greatness, to be the finest football side ever assembled in the history of...
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IMAGINE IF PETER NDLOVU WOULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THE JOURNEY HE HAS TRAVELLED...
SO, the Short Cat, the legend that is Japhet M’parutsa — a goalkeeper some fans believe is only second to Bruce Grobbelaar when it comes to ranking Zimbabwe’s greatest goal-minders — is finally out of...
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CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY WE REALLY HATE OURSELVES SO MUCH?
Sharuko on Saturday PREDICTABLY, even in that wave of ecstasy that swept across domestic football as we celebrated Chicken Inn’s stunning victory last Saturday, there were some Zimbabwean voices who...
View ArticleAND, IN A FLASH, SILVA TURNED FROM THE WINNING ONE TO THE VIOLENT ONE
FOR me it was a very, very scary affair, being hidden under my parents’ bed in the middle of the night, after a group of men stormed our home, 30 years ago, on a mission to teach me a lesson for what...
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THEN, LIKE MUHAMMAD ALI IN HIS PRIME, FLOATING LIKE A BUTTERFLY AND STINGING...
THERE was a striking similarity to the move, that sudden change of pace, a movement so beautiful he looked more of a ballerina than a footballer, the diminutive genius gliding into opposition...
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LIKE THE AZZURI BEFORE THEM, THE WARRIORS CAN DO IT FOR US
SHARUKO ON SATURDAY EXACTLY 10 years ago, the Calciopoli, the biggest match-fixing scandal to hit Italy’s turbulent and corruption-riddled football landscape, exploded and, like a tsunami, left a trail...
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FOR COSTA, THIS IS ABOUT MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME, AND NOTHING IS STANDING IN...
HE rose on the blind side and, for a moment, floated in the air, his imposing frame defying gravity, his gaze fixed on the ball as it spun towards him at pace, his Nike headband holding his dreadlocks...
View ArticleDON’T BLAME ANYONE, BUT THE GREEK TRAGEDY THAT ALWAYS STALKS OUR DEAR WARRIORS
ON a chilly morning on April 28, 1993, I accompanied my then senior workmate, the late Sam Marisa, to the National Sports Stadium for what we expected to be a routine coverage of a training session of...
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IS FOOTBALL REALLY A GAME DRIPPING IN PURITY AND INNOCENCE?
MATTHEW SYED, the award-winning British football writer was, just like me, born in 1970 — a defining year for the game when the FIFA World Cup was beamed on television, in colour, for the first time in...
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IT’S SAD METHOD, BUT THIS IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE WHEN DOVES CRY
Sharuko on Saturday FOR millions of fans around the world, who have been part of the Prince bandwagon for about four decades — doves crying in purple rain and everything that made it fashionable to...
View ArticleAND, JUST LIKE THAT, THE ICONIC SHOWDOWN THAT IS THE HARARE DERBY, WAS BORN
THIS is a very special year in Zimbabwe football — it’s the 40th anniversary of the Dynamos Immortals’ remarkable success story, the year CAPS United’s won their ticket into the Premiership, to give...
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FOR A CHANGE, THEY PAINTED THE TOWN GREEN, AS SILVA WAS CONSUMED BY HIS FIRST...
Sharuko on Saturday WHEN the jinx was finally broken, seven years after Nyasha Mushekwi’s destructive double strike, 2 576 days after Oscar Machapa’s stunning wing wizardry and about 368 weeks after...
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THE BIG QUESTION IS, WHAT REALLY DID THEY SEE IN THIS SILVA FELLOW?
SOME are saying it was a marriage-made-in-hell, a rookie Portuguese coach with a questionable, if not fraudulent record, being plucked from an Internet search to be handed the biggest job in the...
View ArticleSHARUKO: IN A QUARTER-OF-A-CENTURY IN THESE TRENCHES, I HAVE NEVER SEEN...
I HAVE been covering Dynamos for a quarter-of-a-century, what some prefer to call a Silver Jubilee, an adventure that began two years before the world even knew there was an American rapper called The...
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LVG WAS AN INSULT TO COACHING, HOPEFULLY HIS COUNTRYMAN AKBAY IS BETTER
LIKE a dinosaur he remained trapped in the past, left behind by a train that had long gone, a coach who pointed to one night in Vienna in 1995 for his finest hour when Patrick Kluivert’s late goal...
View ArticleNO MORE TEARS OF PAIN KHAMA, AS WAS THE CASE THAT DAY IN LUANDA
ON April 14 this year our Warriors marked a landmark day in their history, the Silver Jubilee of that unforgettable afternoon at the National Sports Stadium, when our favourite football team finally...
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LIKE MUHAMMAD ALI, OUR WARRIORS FLOATED LIKE BUTTERFLIES AND STUNG LIKE BEES
FOR us, this should have been a week of grand colourful celebrations, with our football staging its version of the street carnival that illuminates Harare every summer, when wild parties were supposed...
View ArticleNO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE NOW, A QUARTER MILE AWAY OR HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD,...
IT has to be one of the finest pieces of movie production in history, the way Fast & Furious 7 provides a fitting and touching farewell, to the franchise’s leading actor Paul Walker, who died in a...
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