Marked for Siyabonga Furman
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at PSIM
Muhammad Iqbal 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at PSIM that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at PSIM would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at PSIM
Franco Ramos Mingo 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
256% of the income goes out in wages at PSIM
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at PSIM training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rio Hardiawan 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Morgan Mkhize 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Andile Phiri
A mark of 7.85, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Itumeleng Tau 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market21 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Siyabonga Furman leaves Bloemfontein Celtic the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Sturm Graz come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bloemfontein Celtic did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bloemfontein Celtic can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Bloemfontein Celtic are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Dean Khune runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Bloemfontein Celtic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Itumeleng Tau 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Teboho Grobler 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.