The SuperSport United Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Erick Dolly runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
SuperSport United turn down FC Tokyo for Luther Phiri
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Kermit Khune, 33, rolls back the years — 8.15
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.15 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kermit Khune stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kermit Khune and SuperSport United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at SuperSport United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luther Phiri 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Teboho Williams 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 SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Andile Dolly
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
SuperSport United promote Bongani Mabunda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bongani Mabunda has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market SuperSport United promote Sifiso Manyama from within
- Market SuperSport United promote Teboho Dala from within
- Match Kermit Khune sends SuperSport United past Maritzburg United