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THERE’S something romantic about Bramall Lane — just like Anfield, it has its own stand called the Kop, where the most passionate fans of Sheffield United are found. You feel the raw outpouring of love between the fans and their team. On August 15, 1992, Brian Deane scored the first goal, in the era of […]
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WHAT if hell had songs, what would they sound like, and would you want to hear them? Well, probably like what we heard during the Shame of Sofia on Monday night, those sickening monkey chants, a cacophony of disgrace, a hymn of hate, a tune of hostility. Or what if hell had sights, what would […]
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Robson Sharuko on Saturday If, on the seventh day, somehow, whether by design or by default, September 21 had to be a Saturday, it could only be, and today, that’s exactly what it is. That day, once every week, when my bosses here give me the freedom to write this blog without really adhering to […]
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IN the 85th minute, it felt like the end of the world — grown up men just staring into the distance, crushed by their emotions, betrayed by their expectations, devoured by their pain. Silenced by a freak goal, the first an opposition forward had scored in FIVE years at this fortress in either a World […]
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HE is being called the Hero of Headingley — a rebel English cricketer who scored a monster century to help his country gobble an improbable one-wicket win over the old enemy, Australia, on Sunday to stay alive in the Ashes series. Ben Stokes was the English hero as he scored 74 of the 76 runs […]
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LAST week I made my debut on the Marawa Sports Worldwide daily radio show, on SABC’s Metro FM and Radio 2000, talking about the politics devouring Zimbabwean football.
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I AM working on Moses Chunga’s autobiography, “Rebel With A Cause” and, hopefully, it will generate a lot of interest among readers here and in the Belgian city of Aalst.
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WHAT the HELL did I get myself into the last two weeks, trying to be religious, playing around with religion and writing about evil and the Devil, about good and God? About Shadreck and Misheck, about Moses and Roses, about Ezekiel and Emmanuel, about the Bible and the Parable and about Paul and Saul. You […]
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I HAVE always told my close friends that if I hadn’t become a journalist, it’s very likely I would have ended up being either a Baptist preacher, or a songwriter, with a bias towards rap music. I certainly would never have become a rapper, sadly, I was never given a voice to match. But, I’m […]
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LIKE a raging army of warlords, they exploded into action, united by their identity as proud Congolese, powered by their collective spirits and bonded by a relentless pursuit of justice for their motherland. The rebellion was as impromptu as it was wild, shattering what is usually the tranquillity of the media tribune of the Alexandria […]
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IN the end, there was nothing — no fight and no bite, no defence and no offence, no spirit and only sterility, no spine and no shine, no life and just strife, a sense of helplessness, a degree of sadness, tears streaming down the eyes, the disbelief, a people united by grief. When the end […]
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KNOWLEDGE MUSONA turned 29 last Friday, fate somehow dictating that his birthday should come on the very day he would lead his Warriors to open the biggest AFCON finals, in history, with a high-profile date against the Pharaohs. Most footballers usually do not forget the day they turned 29 because, scientifically, it marks the final […]
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THIRTEEN years ago, I arrived here to bear witness, from a front-row seat, to the Warriors’ AFCON dance on the shores of the Nile and in the shadows of the pyramids. I had to come, no matter what, because beyond all this Egyptian merrymaking was something special for every true fan of the Warriors, which […]
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IT was William Shakespeare who gave us that classic line in “Twelfth Night”: “If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.’’ That was in 1602 when the comedy was first released, and 417 years later, that powerful line still holds […]
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IT has been quite a dramatic few days — the SuperSport bosses axed Robert Marawa through a text message, Bulawayo Chiefs won a league match and anger raged in the domestic football constituency over the Umbro kit the Warriors will use at the AFCON finals. We will deal with Marawa’s bombshell in due course, possibly […]