The Platinum Stars Courier
The terraces1 Oct 2029
Supporters organise against the Platinum Stars board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Words exchanged at Platinum Stars
Thulani Tau and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thulani Mkhize is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match29 Sep 2029
A bad afternoon for Platinum Stars against SuperSport United
0‑1 to SuperSport United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Lebogang Manyama to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
Somebody else is better right now than Evidence Billiat
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Looking ahead1 Oct 2029
The leaders are next for Platinum Stars
Mamelodi Sundowns top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Looking ahead1 Oct 2029
A reunion for Sechaba Gaseitsiwe
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Mamelodi Sundowns in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
Abass Lawal does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Abdoul Diallo
- Squad Percy Modiba remains an outsider
- Squad The room hears from Thulani Billiat