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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY CAPS United are clearly a bigger football franchise than Halesowen Town, but when a club as big as the Green Machine find themselves struggling to raise just US$5 000 for them to undertake a routine trip to Bulawayo to fulfil a league assignment, I think their fans have a right to ask […]
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AT times, watching Dynamos crush Highlanders on Saturday, evoked memories of an explosive Mike Tyson knocking out Michael Spinks, in the first round, in their undisputed world heavyweight boxing championship fight in 1998.
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IN a normal football environment, the Warriors would have been in Zambia this weekend for a titanic 2015 Nations Cup showdown against eternal rivals Chipolopolo in the latest chapter of the Battle of the Zambezi.
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Sharuko On Saturday And, when the mobile update came to deliver the sweet news that Chiredzi had scored at Gibbo and taken the lead, there was a sudden eruption of a mass of people, packed on the United Stand on the city end of the stadium, united by their joy of what had happened hundreds […]
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LUIS Suarez did not bite an opponent just once. Neither did he do it only twice. He did it three times and, the treble was delivered, of all places, on the grand stage that the World Cup provides.
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WHEN Jonathan Mashingaidze sensed blood and launched his counter-attack, with both lightning speed and ferocious blows in Parliament on Thursday, there were shades of Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa exactly 40 years ago.
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY Mangwiro is our weakest link, they shouted in voices heavy with anger, he is a spy, they thundered in voices filled with hatred, he has cost us dearly, they argued in voices filled with emotions, he is a fool, someone even said as we left the VIP Enclosure, and with him we […]
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THE last time they gathered for their feast, exactly four months ago, they gave Cuthbert Dube another four-year mandate as Zifa president, rejected a second bid by Leslie Gwindi and said NO to Trevor Carelse-Juul’s comeback attempt. Yesterday, for the first time since delivering the decisive vote that consolidated
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Sharuko On Saturday If we are to take a leaf from the Germans, Cde Minister, and build our football house from the bottom, we will need far much more than you going to the Maracana, watching Loew and his men triumph, and returning home with a template of how we can move forward.
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BY the time the Germans touched seventh heaven, on a night that had a chilling apocalyptic feeling of Armageddon for the people of Brazil, even those in the winning corner had long lost the passion to celebrate but were now being consumed by a tsunami of sympathy.
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FOR Ghana, this week has all been about soul-searching, a shattered nation trying to find answers to some difficult questions all centred on why their Black Stars didn’t shine brightly in the Brazilian skyline to illuminate the Land where the statue of Christ the Redeemer towers above everything.
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While success at European clubs will win African players millions of dollars and millions of admirers, the reality is that immortality will only be sealed by how these guys perform in the colours of their country — that is where greatness is secured, where heroes transform themselves into superheroes.
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BRAZIL might not exorcise the ghost of the Maracazano as the punishing weight of a nation, which has been waiting for more than half a century for this to happen, appears too much for a team without a centre forward it can trust.
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If you listen to the spin doctors, you will agree with them that there is a certain degree of foolishness, among those who cry loudest whenever we stumble in a Nations Cup campaign, because they will tell you that those blessed with wisdom have long stopped crying for the Warriors because they are a team […]
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BY Thursday morning all the noise had died down, the outpouring of fury had gone, the screaming headlines had vanished and life, in Zimbabwe’s strange football world, was back to normal.