The Jomo Cosmos Post
Match9 Dec 2028
6 matches without a win for Jomo Cosmos
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Jomo Cosmos are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Dec 2028
A falling-out at Jomo Cosmos
Judas Moseamedi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match9 Dec 2028
Jomo Cosmos come up short against Free State Stars
Free State Stars left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Words at Jomo Cosmos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Phakamani Mahlambi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings11 Dec 2028
Siphosakhe Ntiya-Ntiya did the work nobody counts — 6.97
11 combined actions and 6.97. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Jomo Cosmos lose Morgan Mkhize
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Branden Matsila
“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.
Player ratings11 Dec 2028
Phakamani Mahlambi was the difference for Jomo Cosmos
Marked 7.80. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
Alex Tavares: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Ethen Sampson
- The dugout Judas Moseamedi knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Thokozani Khumalo goes back to face Golden Arrows