The Chippa United Sentinel
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Mandla Jali has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Chippa United can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
The mood at Chippa United has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Chippa United
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market4 Jan 2027
Justice Figuareido asks to leave Chippa United
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market4 Jan 2027
SuperSport United come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Chippa United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Reyaad Pieterse 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 Chippa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Antonio Van Wyk 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Chippa United count the cost of losing Erick Grobler
41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Asanele Bonani
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Asanele Bonani, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Justice Figuareido rescues a point for Chippa United
- Player ratings Azola Matrose runs at them all day
- Boardroom $156.3K taken back off the Chippa United table