The 'Vuvuzela-blowing Idiots'

If you are a South African you’d by now have heard someone mention ‘’soccer age’’ which is (true to South Africans nicknaming everything) another way of saying false age. Soccer players are notorious for being age-cheats who reduce their age so they can look like they still have lots of soccer left in them and have long careers ahead of them.

For a moment though let’s shift the spotlight to soccer journalism in Mzansi, because of age cheats there are now many soccer players with authentic ages but have a cloud of doubt hanging over them. If we had at least average soccer journalists we’d know exactly who’s cheating and whose not, I think the first port of call would be high schools the soccer players whose age is in doubt attended. If Tso Vilakazi matriculated in 1994 then we can safely conclude that  he was 12 years old in matric, and ofcourse his former schoolmates can testify to that fact, if it was a fact at all.

But here in SA we have soccer journalists who only feed us their lame opinions instead of any credible investigative journalism, the only investigative work you see is transfer rumours, which is quite easy considering that player agents hand out that info on a silver platter.

If you read match reports you’d think you were watching a totally different game, its not uncommon to read that the goal was scored by this player when it was actually a different player, or that it was a header when it was actually kicked into goal. Strue!

Then there’s KickOff magazine, they are running a ‘story’ on how the current Pirates coach is unpopular with supporters, and I swear that’s according to the voices in their heads. Ruud Krol has just helped Pirates win a cup competition for the first time in 10years. Every fanzone I go to Pirates supporters are happy with Krol but that’s not the sensationalist junk KickOff was looking for. How low can these dimwits stoop?

It’s such a long road for us soccer supporters, journalists and soccer officials think SA soccer fans are just vuvuzela-blowing idiots who must just shut up and go to the stadium, in fact Bobby Motaung once said that, well minus the ‘vuvuzela-blowing idiots’ part. Cecil Motaung, Chiefs Supporters Coordinator this week said ‘Supporters must come to the stadium’, ‘’must’’? Or is it a case of darkies using English words they don’t fully understand?  Well there is a perception especially amongst Pirates supporters that Chiefs supporters are ‘moegoes’ while Pirates’ are more the street-smart type, you’ll be forgiven for believing that considering how the club officials address them sometimes.

SA soccer supporters just don’t the respect they deserve hence the seats are still empty at the stadiums, someone tell me which Einstein at Pirates think Mickey Modisane’s dancing qualifies as halftime entertainment?

You know that last Chiefs game was attended by less than 5000 supporters? LESS THAN 5000! Damn! More supporters watch Real Madrid train! It’s really bad, very bad! And we thought the spirit of Phillip was gonna remain in Mzansi after the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

I don’t know what’s going to get people back in the stadiums, but quality soccer journalism will sure help.