The whole of last week I spent trying to run away from people who  know I work for Trustco. Countless times, I have been asked if I also parked my Beemer.

Everyone I met between last Thursday and Monday kept  talking  about the car issue and  why Informante did not write about the money, blah blah blah.
Well, it took one, Papso (Albertus Aochamub) to give something different to talk about, with his speech at the Sports Awards.
There is need for a focused vision on sports development, as most of us sports writers have been calling for. Papso did good by giving GRN a nice wake-up clap.
Next, we want to hear a similar tone from the Line Minister, so that  it adds pressure to his superiors, whoever they are, SPYL or Cabinet.
Imagine, people here are still in that wet-dream of  the 1998 African Nations Cup team. No one has moved on.  Many people, especially in government when invited to football functions, the first thing they say is, “I remember in 1998....” Everything is still before 1999. How can we go to Equatorial Guinea/Gabon in 2012 or to the 2014 World Cup or to London 2012 Olympics, if people still talk of  1998 Burkina Faso, Frank Fredericks while others are failing to understand that Harry Simon’s era is gone, there is the Hitman.
Frankie has moved on. He is trying to create more geniuses.  Rustern Mogane has moved on, he is now at Sports Commission trying to get things right for our international performances to be up to standard. It’s high time we leave the past and move on.
Many times I try to express myself into the future during discussions with some of my friends but whenever I tell them that its high time we forget the success of the past and build into the future, everyone keeps quiet and then reacts like I just passed wind.
They tell me of the journalists  of the then sports  generation, like  Conrad Angula (yes, he was a great sports writer who could write anyone into the national team) and CK  then a TV personality but all those people have moved on and believe we are not going anywhere.
But Papso, you must watch out. FNB is ripping you off in that Premiership deal. FNB sponsors four clubs in the MTC premiership. However MTC branding is barely noticeable. One sees more of FNB than the sponsors. FNB is getting more mileage from a league they don’t sponsor. Even on the jerseys, the bank is much more visible than the league sponsor. I see a stand-off very soon. A solution must be found now because we expect more sponsors to come into football.
New Name for Ali Akan
Last weekend  I got into discussion with some of the South African older generation players who were around.
They, especially Phil Masinga, Peter Ndhlovu  and Mark Williams seemed to know Ali very well. I intentionally led them into a discussion concerning Ali. A gossip-type of thing.
I told them, Akan since his return from SA at the mid of last season, he has started this season on a controversial note. I told them about his NFA corruption things, I went on to talk about how he transformed  BA.
The we spoke about Ali ejected twice from the bench this season first against Civics, where he was judged to have sworn at the referee. There was no  disciplinary hearing, why? Because the referee did not mention the gravity of Ali Akan’s actions.
Two weeks ago, Ali was  shown the tunnel again, for the second time in a month, (four weeks).  The referee seemed  right in blowing for a tackle against the Black Africa player.  Ali obviously thought the decision was harsh, which I disagree. But, the referee was wrong to give Akan the marching orders for complaining.
It is the coach’s right to protest to a fourth official. I did not see anything wrong unless he said the linesman’s mother’s things. The South African guys agreed that the coach has a right to protest but being Ali, we guessed  he had said something hard to the officials.
That’s when Thulakanye, also jumped into the discussion and said, he has known Akan’s emotions way back in SA and he likens him to uMalema.
uJulius, the ANC  youth leader who embodies everything that young people should spurn: ill-discipline, lack of respect for elders, hatred of education, being prone to mob violence, an uncontrollable mouth and a general uncouthness of being.
Kama, they used to call the BA coach, Ali ‘Julius Malema’ Akan.
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