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Marked for Thabo Molea

169 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

22 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 Oct 2029

Veli Mothwa 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 University of Pretoria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad22 Oct 2029

Luvoyo Phewa 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.

Match20 Oct 2029

Platinum Stars take the points off University of Pretoria

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad22 Oct 2029

University of Pretoria count the cost of losing Thabo Molea

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad22 Oct 2029

The manager makes an example of Crisconti Larry

“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.

Market22 Oct 2029

Luvoyo Phewa linked with a move away

The name of Luvoyo Phewa keeps appearing in other people's back pages. University of Pretoria say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings22 Oct 2029

A day to forget for Thereso Chuene

Marked 5.72, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

Player ratings22 Oct 2029

Crisconti Larry could not find anything

5.71. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

Player ratings22 Oct 2029

Bantu Chingi never got going

5.79 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

Back issues
163 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

10 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match5 Sep 2029

The small margins put University of Pretoria out

Out, 0‑1 to Mamelodi Sundowns, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad10 Sep 2029

Nicolai Slotsager says University of Pretoria went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad10 Sep 2029

Veli Mothwa 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 University of Pretoria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Sep 2029

Luvoyo Phewa 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.

Match8 Sep 2029

Luke Daniels the difference as University of Pretoria beat Black Aces

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luke Daniels. 2‑1 against Black Aces, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces10 Sep 2029

The crowd has taken to Crisconti Larry

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad10 Sep 2029

Nkanyiso Madonsela gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings10 Sep 2029

Luke Daniels in the eights

A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings10 Sep 2029

Monnapule Saleng in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

158 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom6 Aug 2029

University of Pretoria put Ibrahim Calhanoglu 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 Aug 2029

The University of Pretoria 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.

Market6 Aug 2029

Thabo Molea puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at University of Pretoria, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Siyanda Msani signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Siyanda Msani commits to University of Pretoria for another 4 years.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Tempers go at University of Pretoria

Luvoyo Phewa 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.

Boardroom6 Aug 2029

Graduation day at University of Pretoria

11 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.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Siyanda Msani 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.

Market6 Aug 2029

Lebogang Vilakazi steps up from the University of Pretoria academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lebogang Vilakazi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market6 Aug 2029

One of our own: Erick Mothiba joins the University of Pretoria first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erick Mothiba is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief