What was Cape Town Spurs thinking with Middendorp?

German coach has been nothing but a failure at most of the clubs he's been to

- Kgomotso Mokoena

Ernst Middendorp must be some sort of a myth, an enigma and someone who may be in possession of some magical powers.

This past week, the German trainer outdid himself once again when he relegated National First Division (NFD) side Cape Town Spurs to the ranks of amateur football, the ABC Motsepe League - adding another dubious feather in his cap.

The fascination with a man who has coached close to 30 clubs in his 25-year stint as a coach, or pretending to be one, is still mysterious even to this day. I still cannot put my finger on how the Spurs bosses could not, for the whole 18 months he was in charge, see that the ship was about to strike an iceberg much bigger than the one that sunk the Titanic.

He arrived for his first stint at Kaizer Chiefs in the 2005/06 season with a highly decorated CV, full of promise, but he flopped more like Bonfils-Caleb Bimenyimana.