Sting operation netted Masters
Mqondisi Dube | Friday January 30, 2015 17:08
Inside sources say there is simmering discontent at the association with a certain group growing weary of what they perceive to be Masters’ ineptitude.
“In their bid to remove him, he was carefully monitored by his colleagues who eventually found loopholes and reported him to the police. It has been a carefully worked out plot to get rid of him,” sources said.
BFA president, Tebogo Sebego had a heated exchange with Masters towards the end of last year over the Englishman’s work performance. Masters is said to have threatened to commit suicide after the dressing down.
Insiders say after Sebego failed to fire Masters despite reservations about his output, a sting operation was set-up.
He was nabbed and questioned over possession of pornographic material, large amounts of Viagra and the sourcing of a football kit from the United Kingdom.
“The feeling is that he is done after this incident. His detractors feel this sting operation has surely finished him. Even if the president does not fire him, his crimes will,” a source said.
“But this is not fair to the man, BFA should have just fired him without subjecting him to such an embarrassment.”
Masters is reportedly shaken at the turn of events and not keen to talk about the incident.
His future at the BFA hangs by a thread and the arrival of Sebego from the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea is expected to seal his fate.
Sebego refused to comment on the matter on Wednesday, insisting that he wants to be fully briefed first.
The latest episode would certainly put an end to Masters’ largely uneventful stay since his appointment in February 2013 to spearhead an ambitious BFA commercialisation project, which is yet to significantly take off. There have been intermittent calls to fire Masters, but Sebego has dithered.