The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Teboho Grobler out for 59 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Bloemfontein Celtic say no — this time
The offer from Asante Kotoko for Siyabonga Mabena was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Teboho Lorch, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.84
A mark of 7.84 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Thamsanqa Manyama runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Selwyn Stevens at Bloemfontein Celtic
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Selwyn Stevens is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market6 Sep 2027
Luther Mkhize’s move to Chippa United falls through
The deal that would have taken Luther Mkhize to Chippa United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Bloemfontein Celtic with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic
Fredrick Asare 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Grant Kekana 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.
The terraces6 Sep 2027
Bloemfontein Celtic supporters have found a favourite in Teboho Lorch
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Teboho Lorch 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 Teboho Lorch the difference as Bloemfontein Celtic beat Polokwane City
- Market Ramahlwe Zwane is free to find somewhere else
- Market The market said no: Khotso Malope stays put