Edwin Ramaja

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Maritzburg United
10 Mar 2030
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159 Edition

The Maritzburg United Chronicle

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market13 Aug 2029

Mthobisi Zondo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Maritzburg United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad13 Aug 2029

Tempers go at Maritzburg United

Aden Dreyer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings13 Aug 2029

Brooklyn Poggenpoel was immovable

22 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad13 Aug 2029

Words at Maritzburg United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brooklyn Poggenpoel is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings13 Aug 2029

Siphamandla Ncanana was immovable

20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad13 Aug 2029

The manager makes an example of Fezile Gcaba

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match11 Aug 2029

Maritzburg United find a way past SuperSport United

SuperSport United made Maritzburg United work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings13 Aug 2029

Ronaldo Maarman in the eights

A performance of 8.38 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings13 Aug 2029

Thulani Mabaso runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The Maritzburg United Chronicle

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Sep 2028

Fezile Gcaba damages knee ligaments — 82 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 82 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Brooklyn Poggenpoel 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.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Ahmida Zenasni 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 Maritzburg United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Thulani Mabaso gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The terraces4 Sep 2028

Everybody has an opinion about Shaun Els

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Match2 Sep 2028

Maritzburg United draw a blank against Ajax Cape Town

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Ajax Cape Town defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

An afternoon Shaun Els will want back

Marked 5.44. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

An afternoon Efe Obiomo will want back

Marked 5.66. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Market4 Sep 2028

The window shut and Manssour Fofana is still in the building

Maritzburg United spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief