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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY EXACTLY 10 years ago, the Calciopoli, the biggest match-fixing scandal to hit Italy’s turbulent and corruption-riddled football landscape, exploded and, like a tsunami, left a trail of devastation and scars that will last a life-time.
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THERE was a striking similarity to the move, that sudden change of pace, a movement so beautiful he looked more of a ballerina than a footballer, the diminutive genius gliding into opposition territory, with devastating consequences, and fuelling great expectations for a country’s Nations Cup dreams.
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FOR me it was a very, very scary affair, being hidden under my parents’ bed in the middle of the night, after a group of men stormed our home, 30 years ago, on a mission to teach me a lesson for what they perceived to be negative reporting related to their football club.
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Sharuko on Saturday PREDICTABLY, even in that wave of ecstasy that swept across domestic football as we celebrated Chicken Inn’s stunning victory last Saturday, there were some Zimbabwean voices who tried their best to spoil our glorious hour in the sunshine.
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SO, the Short Cat, the legend that is Japhet M’parutsa — a goalkeeper some fans believe is only second to Bruce Grobbelaar when it comes to ranking Zimbabwe’s greatest goal-minders — is finally out of the bag following his decision to write a book
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THE Dynamos team of 1997-1998 can justifiably claim, in a game where results will always be the ultimate barometer to measure greatness, to be the finest football side ever assembled in the history of football in independent Zimbabwe.
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FIKILE MBALULA’S furious outburst, when he described Bafana Bafana as “A BUNCH OF LOSERS,” in the wake of his country’s disastrous 2014 CHAN campaign, a first round humiliation handed in their backyard, was trending among dejected Warriors’ fans this week.
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THEY might have been images plucked from the archives, but when SuperSport decided to broadcast them this week, as part of their special countdown to the 2016 CHAN finals, the sights and sounds from Cape Town and Mangaung, two years ago, still sent shivers down the spine.
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ON Christmas Day in 2014, Leicester City were bottom of the table in the English Premiership, with just 10 points from 17 games, and — if history was anything to go by — the Flying Foxes were set to be relegated.
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THE SPECTACULAR FALLOUT BETWEEN ZIFA AND PASUWA HAS LEFT MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS THE public outrage that has greeted ZIFA’s ill-timed and shock decision to fire Callisto Pasuwa from his job as Warriors coach, barely a month before the country plunges into another African Nations Championships final battle, is understandable.
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Sharuko on Saturday ON January 25 this year, English football marked the 20th anniversary of one of its most dramatic moments when Eric Cantona exploded into a rage at Selhurst Park, after being sent off, and launched a flying kung-fu kick into a Crystal Palace fan.
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Robson Sharuko ON Wednesday, the global football family paused for a moment to remember the day, 10 years ago, a Northern Irish magician, one of the greatest players of all-time, George Best, died in a London hospital, bringing the curtain down to an eventful life in which he charmed the world with his
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Sharuko on Saturday IN the feel-good environment of the rains that came down on Wednesday, and all the joy and hope that they brought, celebrations were expected to explode in Zvishavane and the City of Kings, marking the fall of a football empire.
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Sharuko on Saturday IN the past few weeks this newspaper, in general, and myself in particular, have been at the end of a barrage of attacks from some people who believe that we are either boosting, or fronting, the cause of Philip Chiyangwa to be the next ZIFA president.
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Sharuko on Saturday PAUL GUNDANI did not have the poster boy appearance of Peter Ndlovu, or the striking boyish looks of Benjamin Nkonjera, but his raw power and incredible athleticism, was a dynamic package that made his football so beautiful it swept him into the hearts of millions of fans who saw him dance on […]