The University of Pretoria Herald
Match5 Jun 2034
University of Pretoria are in real trouble now
Position 15, 18 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
University of Pretoria spell it out for Interim Coach
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
Crisis meeting at University of Pretoria
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad5 Jun 2034
A fracture rules Themba Zungu out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason University of Pretoria will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Jun 2034
Teboho Erasmus hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what University of Pretoria can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2034
Mcebisi Langa is a medical away from University of Pretoria
The deal with SuperSport United is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad5 Jun 2034
Raymond Agyemang 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 University of Pretoria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jun 2034
Eric Mbangossoum signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Eric Mbangossoum commits to University of Pretoria for another 2 years.
Squad5 Jun 2034
Luvoyo Phewa 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.
In brief
- The dugout Gift Williams is still paying for one afternoon at University of Pretoria
- The dugout Thamsanqa Mokoena without the man who signed him
- The dugout Meshua Mello knocks on the manager's door