Percy Mkhize

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19 Edition

The SuperSport United Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for SuperSport United

A 4‑0 win over Bidvest Wits, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

A brace, and Kermit Jali takes the afternoon — 9.42

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kermit Jali provided it, and the 9.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

The run at home goes on for SuperSport United

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

A falling-out at SuperSport United

Thamsanqa Zwane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 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.

Market

Rivaldo Zungu raises the bar for SuperSport United

“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.

Match

Dean Manyama’s goal not enough for SuperSport United

Dean Manyama scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Bloemfontein Celtic, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Percy Mkhize stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Percy Mkhize and SuperSport United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The terraces

One of their own: Thamsanqa Manyama

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief

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The SuperSport United Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

No mercy from SuperSport United

Platinum Stars will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. SuperSport United were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Match

SuperSport United cannot stop winning

7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Kermit Jali, 20, steals the show — 9.53

Marked 9.53 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

A day Kermit Jali will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Vintage Percy Mkhize — 7.97

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.97, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at SuperSport United

Thulani Mabaso and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

SuperSport United settle it inside twenty minutes

3 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Platinum Stars spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Player ratings

Dean Manyama was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.44. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Words at SuperSport United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tsiki Ntsabeleng 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.

In brief