The SuperSport United Sentinel
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Khama Dolly runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Sifiso Mabunda scores twice — 8.62
Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Itumeleng Modiba
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Thulani Modiba yet — 8.07
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.07 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at SuperSport United
Sifiso Modiba 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Mandla Zungu — 7.89
Marked 7.89. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Match26 Sep 2026
Sifiso Mabunda the difference as SuperSport United beat Platinum Stars
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sifiso Mabunda. 4‑3 against Platinum Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match26 Sep 2026
7 goals as SuperSport United and Platinum Stars go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between SuperSport United and Platinum Stars, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Khama Dolly 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.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Morgan Mokoena
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Sifiso Mabunda
- The terraces Sifiso Mabunda has his own song now