Teboho Lorch

Central Midfielder - Bloemfontein Celtic
2 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Teboho Lorch

53 Edition

The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Teboho Furman has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Bloemfontein Celtic can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

A fracture rules Ayanda Mtshali out for 88 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bloemfontein Celtic will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom

The Bloemfontein Celtic board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic

Gift Manyama 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.

Squad

Teboho Mothiba 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.

Squad

Teboho Lorch stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Teboho Lorch and Bloemfontein Celtic agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

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The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bloemfontein Celtic throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Bidvest Wits the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Bloemfontein Celtic will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

Thamsanqa Grobler, 34, rolls back the years — 8.61

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.61 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Thamsanqa Dala in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bloemfontein Celtic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bloemfontein Celtic training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Percy Mkhize 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Gift Manyama

Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Antonio Van Wyk at his very best

Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bloemfontein Celtic.

Player ratings

Themba Jali runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Honours even between Bloemfontein Celtic and Bidvest Wits

3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Thamsanqa Grobler named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Thamsanqa Grobler has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief