The Black Aces Herald
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Luther Mabunda
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Morgan Erasmus
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Black Aces lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Thulani Grobler out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Black Aces will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Keagan 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Percy Mahlangu 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 Black Aces this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
Black Aces supporters have found a favourite in Erick Mothiba
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Erick Mothiba has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Match Black Aces get the job done against Chippa United
- Player ratings Erick Mothiba was the difference for Black Aces