Ancizar Aragón

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11 Jul 2027
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Marked for Ancizar Aragón

48 Edition

The Bidvest Wits Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Angelo Van Rooi out for 21 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bidvest Wits will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Roscoe Pietersen asks to leave Bidvest Wits

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Ancizar Aragón: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bidvest Wits have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Bidvest Wits Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Angelo Van Rooi breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Rodrigo Brasília hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bidvest Wits can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Angelo Van Rooi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bidvest Wits this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Sipho Mbule runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bidvest Wits against SuperSport United

0‑1 to SuperSport United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Kamohelo Mokotjo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

The team sheet said everything about Kamohelo Mokotjo

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Kamohelo Mokotjo.

Market

Talks stall between Bidvest Wits and Ancizar Aragón

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Dumisani Zuma

Chances created: 5. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

In brief

23 Edition

The Bidvest Wits Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Bidvest Wits turn down Enyimba for Siyethemba Sithebe

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Kamohelo Mokotjo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bidvest Wits this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Bidvest Wits find a way past Platinum Stars

Platinum Stars made Bidvest Wits work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Sipho Mbule in the eights

A performance of 8.43 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Matías Esquivel falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Dumisani Zuma in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Thembinkosi Lorch runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Sipho Mbule has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bidvest Wits will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Siyethemba Sithebe loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Siyethemba Sithebe. Bidvest Wits will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief