With Liverpool suddenly finding a knack of winning ugly, Chelsea mixing style at home and strife on the road, and Man United – with Fletcher as leading scorer?! — still getting the engine started, this league race may yet match last season’s for nail-biting finales. If nothing else, it will be fascinating to see how […]
Lungani Zama
Lungani Zama is a sports writer at The Witness daily newspaper in Pietermaritzburg, writing mainly on local and international cricket.
He brings an alternative perspective to the English Premier League, and having spent three years in Manchester and Liverpool playing professional cricket, has acquired the necessary passion for this most exciting of soccer leagues. He follows developments religiously, and has no bias as the team he truly supports, Leeds United, is languishing in the 3rd division.
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Stars in their own eyes
It must be tiresome being an English national soccer team supporter. I mean, it’s tough supporting our own Bafana, but at least we have come to accept our limitations on the world stage. But imagine having the richest league in the world — though a little over populated by foreigners admittedly — the best feeder […]
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Bolt? We have plenty of our own …
I have watched as the world marvelled at Usain Bolt’s insane performances in Beijing. And it occurred to me: we have plenty of our own Bolt-like brothers. With planning, we could be the toast of London 2012. How? If you have ever seen a mugging in town, you know how fast our criminals can run. […]
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The slaves are back
What a pre-season of discontent. Ultimately, though, it was much ado about niks. Cristiano Ronaldo gave us his own version of a Julius Malema-risation by suggesting that he was a modern-day slave (for those not versed on the matter, a “Julius” is a statement that is uttered with not much forethought, thus leading to much […]
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Nerves of steel, and a lack thereof …
Before the main event, just a quick mention on last night’s epic struggle for the last golf Major of the year. Sergio Garcia, in Spain’s golden year of sport, looked set to claim his first big prize, but that nerveless Dubliner that is Padraig Harrington obviously didn’t read the script. Thrice, he drenched in long […]