Tables turn on disciplined forces :: Mmegi Online

At the turn of the millennium, the triumvirate of BDF XI, Police XI, and Mogoditshane Fighters obliterated its opponents, which sparked threats of a breakaway league under the Botswana Soccer Association (BOSA). But two decades later, the three clubs are barely recognisable as the landscape has drastically altered, notes Staff Writer, MQONDISI DUBE

There are new good dancers on the domestic front as Jwaneng Galaxy and Orapa United have moved far ahead of the trio that terrorised local opponents. So ruthless were Fighters and BDF XI that they took turns to dominate the league, with the former bagging three titles on the trot between 1999 and 2001.

To put the dominance into perspective, the three security forces teams; Police XI, BDF XI, and Fighters won seven league titles in a display of brutal dominance stretching from 1999 to 2006. Only Township Rollers gate crashed the disciplined forces’ party in 2005. The monopoly led to calls for a breakaway league under the rebellious BOSA as the institutional teams were considered too powerful to compete against community sides, which were barely surviving. Community teams were struggling while their ‘rich’ services sector counterparts sipped and dipped.

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