The Jomo Cosmos Post
Boardroom6 Feb 2045
Jomo Cosmos put Interim Coach on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom6 Feb 2045
Crisis meeting at Jomo Cosmos
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.
Market6 Feb 2045
University of Pretoria come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Jomo Cosmos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings6 Feb 2045
Erick Lorch runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 Feb 2045
Erick Ngcobo stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Erick Ngcobo and Jomo Cosmos agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Feb 2045
The month belongs to Keagan Vilakazi
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Jomo Cosmos have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Squad6 Feb 2045
Hlompho Hlatshwayo 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.
Squad6 Feb 2045
Tempers go at Jomo Cosmos
Bongani Dala 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.
Match4 Feb 2045
Jomo Cosmos draw a blank against Orlando Pirates
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Orlando Pirates defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Market Thulani Zungu placed on the list
- Boardroom The Jomo Cosmos dressing room answers