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BIDVEST Wits chief executive Jose Ferreira has defended the club's decision to play their Telkom Knockout first-round fixture against Kaizer Chiefs on Friday night at the tiny Milpark Stadium on the university campus.

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The university venue can hold just 5000 for what is expected to be a much-anticipated fixture between the new-look Clever Boys and the most supported club in the country in Chiefs.

Although Wits have hosted the Soweto giants at the venue in the past, they have tended to take their more high-profile matches to bigger venues.

When they hosted Chiefs in the league last month the match was played at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit.

But Ferreira says for this knockout fixture they are keen to have Amakhosi come to the cosier environment of their traditional home.

"It is our home ground after all and just because it is Kaizer Chiefs does not mean we would automatically move the game," Ferreira said.

"The principle for us is that we have a home draw in the Telkom Knockout and we want to get the advantage from that, which we feel we can from playing at the Bidvest Stadium.

"It is not something that is unprecedented, when we played Chiefs in the last 16 of the Nedbank Cup in 2011 we hosted that match at the Bidvest Stadium as well."

Ferreira is correct, though Wits finished up on the end of a 4-0 drubbing on that occasion thanks to a brace by Siphiwe Tshabalala.

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Oct 16, 2012

Woodpecker

C'mon, I see a stampede in making given a green light by the PSL.
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Oct 16, 2012

NICEBOOBS

Sorry but no thanks i'm not attending this one - chaos fela...what home advantage is this guy talking about bcos for KC everywhere they play it's like home for them. They are doing this to sabotage the supporters of KC

SHAPA KHOSI SHAPA


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Oct 16, 2012

Moshate

Why PSL is allowing this to happen i don't, I mean do we want repeat of Ellias Park? Even if we say only one of our branches attend this game it will still be a disaster in the making. But we can expect this afterall it is same person who refuse to move this game to Saturday or Sunday to at least give our players enough time to recover from serving the country.

He can try to sabotage our mission but God will see us through.
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Oct 16, 2012

letwadi

There are two ways out of this, either Chiefs should deliberately loose this game and the sponsors feel the pinch or they go out there and play a game of their lives and beat Wits convincingly, with the Millions of Zebra feeling that tiny pit hole called milpark. Finally, Kaizer should refuse in future never ever to release players to the National team..
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Oct 16, 2012

Nzwere

letwadi
There are two ways out of this, either Chiefs should deliberately loose this game
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Hey Cheezekop, how'zt my Zebra friend. do I hear excuses already???
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Oct 16, 2012

NICEBOOBS

This is indeed not fair to the Mighty Amakhosi...re tlo ba jela yona daai ding

KHOSI 4 LIFE
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Oct 16, 2012

letwadi

@Nzwere, monna, its not excuses, why take a league game to Mbombela and not this one? Some teams ahve no spirit at all, why should we play ko bo Orlando le ko bo FNB and bona they play us ko Milpark?
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Oct 16, 2012

Nzwere

letwadi
@Nzwere, monna, its not excuses, why take a league game to Mbombela and not this one? Some teams ahve no spirit at all, why should we play ko bo Orlando le ko bo FNB and bona they play us ko Milpark?
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don't worry mate, you are going to win this one....
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Oct 16, 2012

Nkwe-Tiger

"The university venue can hold just 5000 for what is expected to be a much-anticipated fixture between the new-look Clever Boys and the most supported club in the country in Chiefs." - And only 3500 tickects will be sold for security reasons as usual, what an insult to the National team, anyway Wits it is your home game so use it to your advantage, if there is any.
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Oct 16, 2012

Papage

I will pray for the storm this friday, for the game to be postponed and at a capacity stadium, this PSL does not care about people, how do you plan such a game at a 5000 capacity stadium, yes you might have played big games there in the past, this year is different, every team is playing like they depend on the game. I see lots of people turning for this game, so please PSL think properly. If people get injured we will blame SAFA,PSL, Telkom, BidWits football Club.
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