INDECENT PROPOSAL!

My dearest readers… In a scene of the 1993 blockbuster movie, Indecent Proposal, billionaire John Gage (played by Robert Redford) offers David Murphy (played by Woody Harrelson) and his wife, the sultry Diana Murphy (played by Demi Moore), a cool US$1 million for a night with Moore.

It sends the married couple into a quandary. Well, not that much of a quandary. After initially rejecting Redford’s offer, they couldn’t sleep that night. “I just keep thinking about it,” says Moore. Love takes on money – and loses. When the couple loses US$25 000 in the casino and recession hits them, they miss the second mortgage payment, they could lose their home, Redford’s US$1 million offer causes tension in the house.

Though the steamy Redford-Moore session was never shown, it does put a major crimp on the Moore-Harrelson marriage. After all, what’s a million dollars with a shattered trust? Would you allow your wife to sleep with another man for US$1 million or not? The movie story line polarises opinions. This captivating movie, which premiered on April 7, 1993, made a whopping US$267 million, was brought back to my mind by the events of last week in our football when one Ally Kgomongwe called a press conference to announce that he had secured cash-strapped Manzini Wanderers two directors to choose from and in the meantime he will be paying their salaries.

Prospective

The ‘loan’ will then be paid back by the new prospective director once Wanderers had finished negotiating with him or her. Both these directors are apparently friends of Kgomongwe. This has all the attributes of the scripts of the blockbuster, Indecent Proposal, from start to finish. Noble as Kgomongwe’s assistance to Wanderers may look, on face value, it flies against every aspect of the integrity of the sport called football which is guided by a constitution from here right up to FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich.

It has been disheartening listening and reading some of the inane comments and justifications by people who clearly have no clue what football is all about. Football is about integrity. It is about competition. That’s why FIFA, while promoting friendship, FairPlay then jealously guards the game’s competition and integrity. What has happened here is tantamount to match-fixing. It has not happened anywhere in the world. Imagine even the pronouncement that the two teams, Wanderers and Highlanders, will have a joint camp in Pretoria.

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