The Platinum Stars Courier
Squad20 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Platinum Stars
Luther Williams 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Itai Danor is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Morgan Mabunda 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 ratings20 Sep 2027
One of those days for Hlompho Zungu
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Platinum Stars lose Sifiso Erasmus
56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match18 Sep 2027
Hlompho Zungu rescues a point for Platinum Stars
It needed Hlompho Zungu to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Bidvest Wits, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market20 Sep 2027
Morgan Mabunda linked with a move away
The name of Morgan Mabunda keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Platinum Stars say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Siyabonga Zwane
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market20 Sep 2027
Teboho Dolly leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Teboho Dolly leaves Platinum Stars the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Player ratings Lebogang Phiri spends the afternoon fouling
- Player ratings Thamsanqa Modiba ran the game
- Boardroom The Platinum Stars production line keeps running