Riveiro's departure leaves bad taste in the mouth

When Orlando Pirates announced the departure of coach Jose Riveiro, some of the most hardened Bucs supporters were reduced to tears.

- Kgomotso Mokoena

You see, Riveiro has brought back the good old glory days with gay abandon - and ooh yeah, ooh yeah football die-hard supporters cry too - that's how powerful football is for you, it can leave grown-arse men sobbing like little girls.

At the time, the team was on a high and the Sea Robbers were capturing and hijacking every ship in the Betway Premier-ship and in the CAF Champions League. The news of the Spaniard's not extending his contract beyond three seasons hit them like a haymaker from a prime Mike Tyson.

The sad part is that the explanation from the club was as vague and as empty as the Kaizer Chiefs trophy cabinet in the last decade. And to those Buccaneers long in the tooth, it must have been evoked a sense of déjà vu. They felt the same pain when Ruud Krol left the club under mysterious ways after he won the treble in the last season of his three-year deal.