The Bidvest Wits Gazette
Player ratings26 Aug 2030
Nobody could get near George Matlou
Successful dribbles: 57. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Aug 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Odwa Bushula
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bidvest Wits lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Siyabonga Dube keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bidvest Wits may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market26 Aug 2030
Only the photograph left for Onome Onotafe
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Onome Onotafe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bidvest Wits the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Aug 2030
George Matlou 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 Bidvest Wits this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Teboho Modiba has improved at 30, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Market The Lebogang Vilakazi conversation is coming
- Match Bidvest Wits share the spoils with Jomo Cosmos
- Market The Naoufel Zerhouni question follows Bidvest Wits around