Friends or Enemies of Football?
Monday, December 01, 2014
As things stand right now, public confidence is quickly waning and questions have been asked as to whether they are indeed Friends of Football as was believed to be as they sold themselves as.
Some have already started to term them as 'Enemies of Football'. This is mainly because they seem to have gone off the rails. First things first; Friends of Football was voted into office after a fierce battle in the last BFA elective Assembly that had to vote for the President. Tebogo Sebego led the faction and ascended to the Presidency of the Association. His ascendency to the BFA Presidency was greeted with fanfare and optimism. The football family’s hopes were raised and they expected a complete turnaround from the controversy riddled BFA tenures of the past. When they campaigned and eventually took office, the Sebego led Friends of Football clique were saying all the right things and all that they said was good music to our ears. There were a few sceptics but on the whole, there was general approval and a mood of expectancy.
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