Joseph Misika

The greatest and most exciting league in the world will be kicking off this coming weekend and as always it will have its own twists, turns, lows and highs. How do you think it will pan out? Will Manchester United be crowned champions for the fourth time in a row without a certain Portuguese maestro […]

The Premier Soccer League (PSL) kicked off this weekend with two wins and a few draws. There were some really good games I managed to get a glimpse of like the Free State derby between Bloemfontein Celtic and Free State Stars which ended in a 2-2 draw. This is going to be an intriguing South […]

Mamelodi Sundowns have just hired another coach, their fourth manager since winning the league title in the 2006/07 season. As a coach hired on an expensive salary and brought from abroad, there are high expectations. Hristo Stoichkov — a former Bulgarian international — was part of Johan Cruyff’s dream team at Barcelona in the early […]

“My qualities are not good enough for Ajax,” uttered Marco van Basten, one of the best strikers to ever grace the soccer pitch when he resigned from his job less than 12 months after taking over the coaching reins at his boyhood club Ajax Amsterdam. A few days earlier across the border in Germany, Jurgen […]

The current Formula One season has been stagnant and boring. We’ve seen many boardroom squabbles between Formula One Teams Association and Max Mosley (president of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile sports governing body) that nearly erupted into a breakaway motorsport league over the rules and regulations. But Wednesday July 29 will arguably go down in […]

Some clubs believe that having lots of money and buying players leads to success, this is the school of thought held by the likes of Manchester City, Real Madrid and Chelsea (before Roman Abramovich closed his cheque book). But then if you look closely at the most successful teams around the world, their best players […]

A selling club is a club that has to sell its most prized assets every season to survive, they don’t generate a lot of money from marketing, sponsorships and merchandise. There are a lot of soccer clubs in Europe even if they play in the lucrative Champions League they still have to sell season in, […]

A while back I wrote about the Battle of the Browsers between Opera’s Opera, Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox versus Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. From the look of things, the axis of good have won with the recent announcement by Microsoft that they will be shipping Windows 7 to Europe without IE. It just makes me […]

I am not a law expert so I wouldn’t mind if law experts would chip in and help me where I am lacking or fill in with more details. How binding are sports contracts? In every profession, the employer would like you to fulfil certain duties that drive his business or company forward but that […]

As four European clubs line up to take part in the Amsterdam Tournament from July 24 to 26, you will notice that it has lost the magic it once possessed. Big giants of European football (Manchester United, Arsenal, Internazionale, Liverpool, Porto) dreamt of playing in this prestigious tournament at the Amsterdam Arena in the Netherlands, […]

We have seen time and again at Old Trafford that no man is bigger than the club. Players have come and gone and it’s been clear that there’s no room for egos. The only ego that counts and is allowed is Sir Alex Ferguson’s. Ferguson has said that Manchester United is a phenomenon that is […]

Google recently joined the group of companies supporting the European Commission’s investigation into Microsoft over the benefits it gets ahead of its competitors by releasing its Internet Explorer browser with Windows. The complaint was originally filed by one of Microsoft’s software rivals, Opera. The Norway-based company also makes a web browser by the same name, […]