The Platinum Stars Courier
Match9 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Platinum Stars
1‑4 against Orlando Pirates, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
A cup hiding at Orlando Pirates leaves Platinum Stars explaining themselves
1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Lebogang Mahlangu
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Sep 2026
Percy Manyama wants more than Platinum Stars are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Khama Khune 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Thulani Furman 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Platinum Stars
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Match12 Sep 2026
Platinum Stars share the spoils with Golden Arrows
A 1‑1 draw with Golden Arrows leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Platinum Stars pick somebody else ahead of Keagan Mkhize
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.
In brief
- Squad A long afternoon for Sifiso Mlungwana
- Market The window shut and Andile Mahlangu is still in the building