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IN a year’s time, God willing, I will mark the 20th anniversary of my first dance covering the Nations Cup finals — breaking new ground for local football writers when I landed in the Burkinabe capital of Ouagadougou in ’98.
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IF Dynamos fans have been wondering how CAPS United overhauled an 11-point deficit, last year, and turned it into a 17-point advantage over the Glamour Boys in the championship race this year, the events of the past few days might provide a clue to that spectacular transformation.
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THEY invaded the Midlands capital like an army of Vikings, in the year Iceland flexed its football muscles with a spectacular show of both force and vociferous support for a club that had seemingly perfected the art of breaking their hearts. And two weeks after that colourful football carnival, residents of Gweru, still talking about the […]
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Sharuko on Saturday THE global football community has been grieving all week, shedding tears for the players and coaches of a lightweight Brazilian club that dared to challenge the establishment in a remarkable adventure that held the world spellbound, who perished in that horrific plane crash in Colombia.
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STEVIE G REMINDS ME, IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE, OF THE IMMORTAL JOEL SHAMBO STEVEN GERRARD, one of the greatest players of his generation, this week announced his retirement from football sparking a mainstream and social media frenzy as tributes poured in from all over the world in honour of his distinguished service to the […]
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Sharuko on Saturday IT hasn’t been a very good week for the media, what with our colleagues at Soccer Laduma in South Africa being forced to make a humiliating public apology to Kaizer Chiefs by the Press Council, for publishing a fake interview involving Amakhosi midfielder Lucky Baloyi, last year.
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY LAST week on Tuesday, my marriage with this newspaper entered its 25th year, a Silver Jubilee of an adventure pregnant with trials and tribulations, in a profession that has always been my passion from the moment it dawned on me that one good day I would have to work for my living.
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY IF you are an underdog, like our beloved Warriors, a neutral fascinated by the romance of a Cinderella tale or a fan of a team burdened by years of underachievement to the extent failure has become part of the DNA of that love affair, you certainly can’t resist the magic of the […]
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FOOTBALL CHEERED A NATION BURDENED BY THE NEGATIVITY OF ITS LINKS WITH THE GUPTAS AND THE CHAOS AT ITS UNIVERSITIES THIS week, two years ago, South Africa was mourning, overwhelmed by the tragic events of the night of October 26, 2014, at the Vosloorus home of singer and actress Kelly Khumalo, where Bafana Bafana captain […]
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY THE joke in town this week was that Dynamos, with 39 points, might need to borrow the points amassed by Border Strikers, who have 14 points, for the Glamour Boys to catch up with CAPS United’s tally of 53 points.
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY EXACTLY a year ago, I described Sam Allardyce, as a “FOOLISH COACH CALLED BIG SAM” and it provoked a fierce backlash from people who felt the criticism was not only unacceptable, but was a vicious, if not sickening, blow below the belt.
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY IT has been a great year where sporting underdogs have punched above their weight — Leicester City defying 5000-1 odds to win their FIRST English Premiership title, Portugal refusing to melt in Paris to shock France to win their FIRST Euro title and the Cleveland Cavaliers upstaging favourites
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY ONE of the most remarkable events in the history of mankind occurred on Europe’s Western Front during World War One when on December 25 in 1914, German and the British soldiers downed their machine guns and played a football match to mark the Christmas Truce. Men who had, for years, turned the front […]
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HE saved the best for last and, for some of us who had the privilege to watch it live, it was worth the one hour and 17 minutes we had waited on Wednesday night for our football star to produce his piece of magic. When the ball was moved into his path, he was occupying the […]
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TWO years ago, the executive chairman of the English Premiership, Richard Scudamore, issued a chilling warning that Manchester United’s struggles on the pitch had the potential of seriously damaging the global appeal of the world’s most popular top-flight football league. Since arriving as the English Premiership chief executive, in November 1999, Scudamore