Marked for Morgan Mokotjo
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Felix Mulyungi damages knee ligaments — 87 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 87 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Levian Ochieng has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sofapaka they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Morgan Mokotjo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Morgan Mokotjo has just signed for Sofapaka, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad11 Jan 2027
David Nshimirimana 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.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
Bandari will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Ally Yusuf has pre-agreed a move to Sofapaka, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑7 against Free State Stars, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between SuperSport United and Free State Stars, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at SuperSport United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khama Dolly 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 3 saves does not settle it either way.
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Triumph
Market31 Aug 2026
$12.1M from CSKA Moscow for Dean Ngcobo. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Dynamo Kyiv for Khama Dolly was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what SuperSport United can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $12.1M sale of Dean Ngcobo
He is going to CSKA Moscow, the club has $12.1M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mandla Zungu. 2‑0 against Jomo Cosmos, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Mandla Zungu
7.79, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. SuperSport United had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tartá 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.85, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Dynamo Kyiv have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Khama Dolly. The answer from SuperSport United has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about SuperSport United and Bloemfontein Celtic in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at SuperSport United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khama Dolly 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Khama Dolly
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
RC Lens come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and SuperSport United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at SuperSport United heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dean Ngcobo 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.