The Platinum Stars Courier
Squad21 Sep 2026
Evidence Billiat 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 Platinum Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Sphamandla Sithole
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match19 Sep 2026
Platinum Stars and Bidvest Wits take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Williams Ngcobo
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Khaya Mfecane asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The spotlight tightens on Evidence Billiat
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erick 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Evidence Billiat leaves them behind him
Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
An afternoon Sphamandla Sithole will want back
Marked 5.53. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Sifiso Kekana
- Market The Williams Ngcobo story refuses to die
- Market Keagan Furman leaves for nothing