A GOAL originally credited as an own goal has quietly been awarded to Katlego Mashego of Moroka Swallows to boost his chances in the race to become the leading goalscorer this season.
The league tally of the 30-year-old striker is now up to nine, putting him just one behind the current top marksman, Bernard Parker of Kaizer Chiefs.
The league's top goal-scorer award carries a minimum R25000 prize at the end of the season for a tally less than 15, increasing to R100000 if the winner gets more than 26 goals in the season.
Mashego is now credited on the Premier Soccer League's website with nine goals, but it was the league's own match report for the game against Pretoria University on September 14 that awarded his effort as an own goal by Bongani Zungu. Media reports varied at the time, with some saying Mashego scored and others calling it an own goal.
Mashego fired a shot from a short free-kick by Lerato Chabangu goalward but it hit Zungu in the chest and deflected into the net.
It is generally held that if an attacker takes a shot on goal and it looks to be on target but takes a deflection and goes into the net, it is credited to the shooter.
But if the shot was going off target and is deflected into the net, then it should be an own goal.
The Premier Soccer League - unlike many of the top leagues in the world - has no panel to adjudicate on these matters and so the final word should come from the referee's report.
But in this case the PSL looks to have changed the original decision - at odds with its own documentation.
It was only last week that for the first time ever it gave clarity on the identity of a scorer when it said Erwin Isaacs had not scored twice for Wits against Black Leopards, as some media reports had suggested, but that the second goal had come from Ryan Chapman.
PSL's leading scorers: Bernard Parker, Kaizer Chiefs, 10
Katlego Mashego, Moroka Swallows, 9
Cuthbert Malajila, Maritzburg Utd, 8
Lehlohonolo Majoro, Kaizer Chiefs, 8
Henrico Botes, Platinum Stars, 7
Welcome Qalanto, Chippa United, 7
Calvin Kadi, Bidvest Wits, 6
Mame Niang, University of Pretoria, 6
Rodney Ramagalela, Black Leopards, 6
Lerato Manzini, Bloem Celtic, 5
Luyanda Bacela, Celtic, 5
Mogakolodi Ngele, Platinum Stars, 5
Norman Smith, Golden Arrows, 5
Mashego on cloud 9
A GOAL originally credited as an own goal has quietly been awarded to Katlego Mashego of Moroka Swallows to boost his chances in the race to become the leading goalscorer this season.
The league tally of the 30-year-old striker is now up to nine, putting him just one behind the current top marksman, Bernard Parker of Kaizer Chiefs.
The league's top goal-scorer award carries a minimum R25000 prize at the end of the season for a tally less than 15, increasing to R100000 if the winner gets more than 26 goals in the season.
Mashego is now credited on the Premier Soccer League's website with nine goals, but it was the league's own match report for the game against Pretoria University on September 14 that awarded his effort as an own goal by Bongani Zungu. Media reports varied at the time, with some saying Mashego scored and others calling it an own goal.
Mashego fired a shot from a short free-kick by Lerato Chabangu goalward but it hit Zungu in the chest and deflected into the net.
It is generally held that if an attacker takes a shot on goal and it looks to be on target but takes a deflection and goes into the net, it is credited to the shooter.
But if the shot was going off target and is deflected into the net, then it should be an own goal.
The Premier Soccer League - unlike many of the top leagues in the world - has no panel to adjudicate on these matters and so the final word should come from the referee's report.
But in this case the PSL looks to have changed the original decision - at odds with its own documentation.
It was only last week that for the first time ever it gave clarity on the identity of a scorer when it said Erwin Isaacs had not scored twice for Wits against Black Leopards, as some media reports had suggested, but that the second goal had come from Ryan Chapman.
PSL's leading scorers: Bernard Parker, Kaizer Chiefs, 10
Katlego Mashego, Moroka Swallows, 9
Cuthbert Malajila, Maritzburg Utd, 8
Lehlohonolo Majoro, Kaizer Chiefs, 8
Henrico Botes, Platinum Stars, 7
Welcome Qalanto, Chippa United, 7
Calvin Kadi, Bidvest Wits, 6
Mame Niang, University of Pretoria, 6
Rodney Ramagalela, Black Leopards, 6
Lerato Manzini, Bloem Celtic, 5
Luyanda Bacela, Celtic, 5
Mogakolodi Ngele, Platinum Stars, 5
Norman Smith, Golden Arrows, 5
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