The SuperSport United Sentinel
Squad7 Dec 2026
Williams Mkhize keeps SuperSport United in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 16 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Erick Erasmus damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Clinton N'jie out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason SuperSport United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match5 Dec 2026
SuperSport United out of the cup
Bloemfontein Celtic ended it 3‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Bongani Mokotjo scores twice — 8.71
Two goals and a mark of 8.71 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
A cup hiding at Bloemfontein Celtic leaves SuperSport United explaining themselves
1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Age has not caught Rivaldo Kekana yet — 8.07
At 33 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Williams Mkhize signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Williams Mkhize and SuperSport United agree another 2 years.
Match5 Dec 2026
SuperSport United are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
In brief
- Match Bongani Mokotjo among the goals in a wild afternoon
- Player ratings Hlompho Mphela in the eights
- Boardroom Nobody left the SuperSport United dressing room in a hurry