Joseph Misika

Next season’s Formula 1 season looks like it’s going to be one of the most intriguing yet. There won’t be a certain Max Mosley, whose reign as President of Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) was full of scandals. Some said the sports governing body showed favouritism in how it handled some of the disciplinary cases. […]

Can somebody please explain how Fifa goes about running “world” football? If it truly claims to represent the interests of world football, why is it that Europe and the Union of European Football Associations (Uefa) seem to get a better deal than the rest of the world? First we have to look at the World […]

A tournament where the hosts never get beyond the first round is always dreaded because the general buzz and interest dies down. Bafana are not doing enough to allay this fear. France went all the way in 1998, South Korea kept the torch burning after Japan got knocked out when they were co-hosts in 2002 […]

Greatness is measured in many ways and one of the players who springs to mind is Ryan Giggs. He has never really achieved anything with Wales at international level, be it the European Championships or the World Cup. Medals, statistics and individual awards show what a great player the Welsh man has been for Manchester […]

Everybody loves a winning team but then Bafana are just not doing it. The current Bafana Bafana set-up is not the greatest since South Africa’s re-admission to international football in 1992. A lot of questions have to be asked: who are the best coaches to lead the national team? Is local good or do we […]

Tonight marks a defining moment in the return of “European nights”, also known as the Champions League — the best continental championship in the world right now. This season’s final is going to be held at Real Madrid’s homeground, the Santiago Bernabeu. As usual there will be more questions than answers which will be answered […]

In exactly 273 days from now the world will be descending on South Africa for the 2010 soccer World Cup while some of the world’s best soccer talent will be feeling a little disgruntled in front of their top-of-the-range HDTV televisions where they’ll be watching it from home and harbour grievances at what could have […]

Is their success at luring talent and the financial success of the English Premier League turning English clubs into victims? Fifa recently gave Chelsea a 12-month ban on any transfer activity for “tapping” or inducing Gael Kakuta from French club Lens in 2007. The charge says Chelsea induced the youngster to break his contract with […]

With the US Open having kicked off over the weekend, pundits everywhere are making predictions about the outcome of the US Open and I’m making my own. The defending singles champion is Roger Federer for the men and Serena Williams for the women. Federer has so far shown he is at home at the USTA […]

Is Roger Federer the greatest player to ever grace the tennis court? He has won 15 grand slam titles and will be moving in for title number 16 at the upcoming US Open, which he has won for the past five years. He also holds the record for being ranked number one for 237 consecutive […]

I attended the Kaizer Chiefs-Ajax Cape Town match at Orlando Stadium yesterday — from the comfort of my living room — and what a match it turned out to be. For the first time in a long time it looked like Kaizer Chiefs had solved their goal-scoring problems but it still wasn’t enough to get […]

Can Sir Alex Ferguson resist the urge to dip back into the transfer market? Every night I go to bed hoping to discover in the morning that Fergie had tricked us when he announced a while back that he had completed his transfer dealings. That I’ll wake up to sports headlines similar to those trumpeted […]