Fumbling football feasts at the high table while stellar codes feed on crumbs

Friday, April 28, 2017

The 4 X 400 team that won silver in Bahamas

Local football continues to hoard the larger slice of the cake as smaller but excelling codes are forced to feed on crumbs. The status quo has all along appeared acceptable, but other codes are cranking up pressure for a shift in the division of the cake, argues Staff Writer, MQONDISI DUBE

Virtually every street corner from the sprawling Peleng to Monarch, there is a group of sweating boys chasing a plastic ball, with improvised goal posts usually in the form of upright bricks.

This confirms that football is, by miles, the nation’s most popular sport. But decades of participation at national level has brought nothing but agony, except in 2012 when the Zebras made it to the Africa Cup of Nations finals, after years of trying.

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Fumbling football feasts at the high table while stellar codes feed on crumbs

Local football continues to hoard the larger slice of the cake as smaller but excelling codes are forced to feed on crumbs. The status quo has all along appeared acceptable, but other codes are cranking up pressure for a shift in the division of the cake, argues Staff Writer, MQONDISI DUBE

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