The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Bradley Mabunda
48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bloemfontein Celtic lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Gift Dala keeps Bloemfontein Celtic in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Siyabonga Mothiba runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Bloemfontein Celtic
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Bloemfontein Celtic
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bloemfontein Celtic can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic
Evidence Grobler 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.
In brief
- Match Bloemfontein Celtic come up short against Ajax Cape Town
- Squad No hiding place for Itumeleng Mothiba
- Market The Ramahlwe Mphela story refuses to die
- Player ratings Kegan Johannes spends the afternoon fouling