Erick Erasmus

Goalkeeper - SuperSport United U18
12 Dec 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Erick Erasmus

19 Edition

The SuperSport United Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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 terraces

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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

Back issues
18 Edition

The SuperSport United Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Erick Erasmus damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Clinton N'jie out for 27 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.

Player ratings

Erick Mothiba scores twice — 8.39

Two goals and a mark of 8.39 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Both of them Bongani Mokotjo's — 8.34

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Tempers go at SuperSport United

Sifiso Phiri 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.

Match

SuperSport United get the job done against Black Aces

A 4‑3 win over Black Aces, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about SuperSport United and Black Aces in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hlompho Mphela

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Bongani Mokotjo

12 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief

17 Edition

The SuperSport United Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Erick Erasmus damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.

Squad

Clinton N'jie breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

A hiding for SuperSport United

Beaten 0‑3 by Maritzburg United, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Bongani Mokotjo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at SuperSport United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Morgan Phiri 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 SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Sifiso Phiri 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