The Free State Stars Chronicle
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gift Motupa 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 Free State Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Free State Stars against Mamelodi Sundowns
1‑3 to Mamelodi Sundowns, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Siyabonga Mkhize
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Morgan Dolly did the work nobody counts — 6.57
9 combined actions and 6.57. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
5 new faces, and Free State Stars are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Andile Zwane runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad Morgan Dolly named player of the week
- Market Still no ink between Free State Stars and Thulani Lorch
- Player ratings Hlompho Mahlangu ran the game
- Player ratings Lebogang Zwane spends the afternoon fouling