The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel
Squad7 Aug 2028
Thabo Mokwena damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
Age has not caught Ramahlwe Grobler yet — 7.80
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match5 Aug 2028
Bloemfontein Celtic make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Lwandiso Radebe at Bloemfontein Celtic
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lwandiso Radebe is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Hlompho Tau 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 Bloemfontein Celtic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Aug 2028
A late step up for Luther Hlatshwayo
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Bloemfontein Celtic
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
Hlompho Tau runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Aug 2028
One of our own: Kermit Mkhize joins the Bloemfontein Celtic first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kermit Mkhize is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Bloemfontein Celtic promote Hlompho Mokoena from within
- Market Bloemfontein Celtic promote Bradley Lorch from within
- Market Mandla Mabunda steps up from the Bloemfontein Celtic academy