THE end of the 2011-12 Premier Soccer League season is at hand.
Tomorrow the curtain comes down on one of the most intriguing championship battles ever. And this one could not be more scintillating since it sees the battle being fought between two of the oldest teams in the country.
They are also bitter rivals, who used to divide the country into two camps in the good old days of Mzansi football.
That they are both from Soweto adds spice to the "last supper", which sees them head for KwaZulu-Natal to settle the issue.
Log leaders Orlando Pirates are pitted against Lamontville Golden Arrows, whilesecond-placed Moroka Swallows square up to Maritzburg United in matches neither dare lose.
The Buccaneers can also not afford a draw.
Such is the importance of tomorrow's programme that come 3pm the country will come to a virtual standstill. All eyes will be on the small screen as the action swings from ground to ground.
Never in the past two decades have Swallows had so manypeople talking about the team in such positive terms. Even if they were to fail to clinch the prized silverware, they will still be the team of the season in the eyes of football fanatics.
For Pirates, on the other hand, history beckons.
A second treble in two seasons would be hard to emulate for lesser clubs, but for the Buccaneers - with the array of stars in their ensemble - it seems already in the bag.
We are all waiting for the fat lady to sing and then sign off with the anticipation of an even more splendid season beginning in August.
It would have been a near- perfect football season had it not been for the Bloemfontein Celtic louts last weekend.
Their unsavoury behaviour when they publicly displayed their violent side in a nasty brawl outside Orlando Stadium last Saturday before the game against Pirates; the subsequent looting of a filling station'sconvenience shop in Grasmere on their way back home, brought the club, the PSL, the sponsors and footballsupporters into disrepute and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms.
Criminal charges also have to be laid against whoever is found to have been involved in these despicable actions.
Surveillance cameras are said to have captured some of these thugs and can help inidentifying them.
Football can do without such people and an example should be made of them to deter anyone else who might entertain such thoughts or action in future.
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THE end of the 2011-12 Premier Soccer League season is at hand.
Tomorrow the curtain comes down on one of the most intriguing championship battles ever. And this one could not be more scintillating since it sees the battle being fought between two of the oldest teams in the country.
They are also bitter rivals, who used to divide the country into two camps in the good old days of Mzansi football.
That they are both from Soweto adds spice to the "last supper", which sees them head for KwaZulu-Natal to settle the issue.
Log leaders Orlando Pirates are pitted against Lamontville Golden Arrows, whilesecond-placed Moroka Swallows square up to Maritzburg United in matches neither dare lose.
The Buccaneers can also not afford a draw.
Such is the importance of tomorrow's programme that come 3pm the country will come to a virtual standstill. All eyes will be on the small screen as the action swings from ground to ground.
Never in the past two decades have Swallows had so manypeople talking about the team in such positive terms. Even if they were to fail to clinch the prized silverware, they will still be the team of the season in the eyes of football fanatics.
For Pirates, on the other hand, history beckons.
A second treble in two seasons would be hard to emulate for lesser clubs, but for the Buccaneers - with the array of stars in their ensemble - it seems already in the bag.
We are all waiting for the fat lady to sing and then sign off with the anticipation of an even more splendid season beginning in August.
It would have been a near- perfect football season had it not been for the Bloemfontein Celtic louts last weekend.
Their unsavoury behaviour when they publicly displayed their violent side in a nasty brawl outside Orlando Stadium last Saturday before the game against Pirates; the subsequent looting of a filling station'sconvenience shop in Grasmere on their way back home, brought the club, the PSL, the sponsors and footballsupporters into disrepute and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms.
Criminal charges also have to be laid against whoever is found to have been involved in these despicable actions.
Surveillance cameras are said to have captured some of these thugs and can help inidentifying them.
Football can do without such people and an example should be made of them to deter anyone else who might entertain such thoughts or action in future.
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