Football politics too heavy to handle

There is no difference between football politics and that of political organisations. They share one common thing – that of making a promise, and then not delivering on it… writes Godfrey Sigwela.

Therefore Kaizer Chiefs fans should not start believing all that’s been said about the revitalising of the glamour boys. In order to avoid a heart attack, fans should wait until the first opening game of the season. Then they can verify whether Kaizer Chiefs do indeed live up to their promises.

Exactly like in political organisations, football politics are too heavy to handle. They are not easily interpreted in a similar way to how a referee can explain the “hand to ball or ball to hand” soccer rule.

Sometimes a coach can suffer in the hands of players who do not like him. It is alleged that some players will drop their fitness levels deliberately, and in order to not be selected will avoid playing alongside a certain player.

A heavy drinking spree and AWOL are some of the football politics players usually engage in. That bad behaviour can be viewed as a coup.

Just like in political organisations, someone is elected to become an executive mayor today. But three days later, the same council who elected the new mayor will suddenly announce a vote of no confidence. Then they will vote and remove the new mayor.

Looking at coach Arthur Zwane at Kaizer Chiefs, he had assembled a good squad for the last season.

But one wonders, why did Amakhosi players have a series of own goals? And some unsolved similar defending blunders?

That was strange because many football experts identified those problems in the Amakhosi camp. But they were not fixed, instead they were repeated in the field of play.

And it’s not only in the Naturena home base of Amakhosi where football politics may exist. In global football, coaches and players always find themselves under these circumstances.

No referee can blow away football politics. Football players and coaches are human beings and are subsets of their own environment.

By Godfrey Sigwela