The Mamelodi Sundowns Sentinel
Match21 Dec 2026
Mamelodi Sundowns are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 36 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Junaid Seedat keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mamelodi Sundowns may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Mamelodi Sundowns
Ronwen Williams and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Real improvement from Zeke Felix at Mamelodi Sundowns
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Zeke Felix is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Marcelo Allende 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
Marcelo Allende was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market21 Dec 2026
Arthur Sales told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Arthur Sales has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Mamelodi Sundowns.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Lebo Mothiba 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ronwen Dolly was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Mamelodi Sundowns dressing room was either.
In brief
- Squad Iqraam Rayners suspended
- The dugout Peter Shalulile has become a man the manager trusts
- Player ratings Nuno Santos leaves them behind him