The Black Aces Herald
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Black Aces
Itumeleng Lorch 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Edimar signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Edimar commits to Black Aces for another 2 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Itumeleng Lorch
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Itumeleng Lorch, and the manager let it.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ronwen Phiri sends Black Aces past Jomo Cosmos
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ronwen Phiri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Black Aces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Edimar 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nothing got past Ramahlwe Tau
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Itumeleng Lorch runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ronwen Phiri stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.83 on the card, and the Black Aces support went home talking about one name.
Market5 Oct 2026
Black Aces bring in an old head
Edson is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Market Edimar brings the grey hairs Black Aces lacked
- Player ratings A day to forget for Khama Erasmus
- Market Talks stall between Black Aces and Teboho Erasmus