The Chippa United Sentinel
Squad7 Aug 2028
Erick Kekana damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Chippa United spell it out for Themba Tau
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Themba Tau has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The Chippa United board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Rivaldo Khune: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chippa United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Keanu Stevens is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Chippa United
Reyaad Pieterse was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Chippa United
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.
Market7 Aug 2028
One of our own: Erick Mkhize joins the Chippa United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erick Mkhize is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market7 Aug 2028
Chippa United promote Gift Mabunda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gift 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 One of our own: Luther Furman joins the Chippa United first team
- Market Chippa United promote Percy Mokotjo from within
- Match A bad afternoon for Chippa United against Kaizer Chiefs