PLS READS THE RIOT ACT!

My dearest readers ... Quickly now, settle down people. There will now be a quiz, so get your pen and paper ready. Who said on national radio the Premier League of Swaziland (PLS) ‘will not allow a big team like Mbabane Highlanders to be relegated from the Premier League if they can help it’?

A. PLS Chairman Victor ‘Maradona’ Gamedze B. FA President Adam ‘Bomber’ Mthethwa C. PLS Executive member Mduduzi ‘Tsotsi’ Mabila D. Highlanders self-proclaimed number one fan, Sabelo ‘Rasta’ Dlamini.

No free smsses for life or a new cellphone from Swazi Mobile for guessing right that it was the Premier League of Swaziland (PLS) Chairman, Victor ‘Maradona’ Gamedze after the organisation forked out a sum of E300 000 to help sustain the floundering Highlanders who had seen a bunch of irate fans chase the then club boss Bheki ‘Rubber’ Simelane after a 3-0 loss to Royal Leopard a week earlier.

The decision by the PLS raised eyebrows – rightly so – and was heavily criticised in some quarters as many armchair critics wondered why the organisation was ‘baby-sitting’ a big team like Highlanders when other teams like Mbabane Dribbling Wizard, Moneni Pirates, Denver Sundowns, Mhlambanyatsi Rovers, Eleven Men In Flight had also suffered the ignominy of relegation and some perished to the oblivion.

This column, the State-of-The-Nation-Sports-Address (SONSA), supported the move by the PLS to the hilt because first, I did not allow my club preferences (or to put it bluntly dislike for the ‘Black Bull’) to come in the way and most importantly the rational was the business side of the game and how Highlanders, as a crowd pulling team and a founding member of the PLS, was the backbone of the livelihood of Swazi football.

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