Hunt fired up for fresh start with Durban City

IT would be stretching it to say he was like a kid in a sweet shop, but Gavin Hunt has certainly got his mojo back following an uncharacteristic enforced break from the game after being sacked by SuperSport United midway through last season.

- MATSHELANE MAMABOLO

At the launch of the 2025/26 Betway Premiership season in Sandton on Tuesday, the multiple championship-winning coach's excitement at returning to the coalface of the game he lives for was palpable.

"It's good," he said, his pearly whites confirming his mood.

"Anytime you go to a new team, it gives you a new lease of life. You fall in love with the game again."

Hunt has found his football rebirth at newly-promoted Durban City, having been sent out to pasture by SuperSport. So it's understandable that his passion for the game has been rekindled.

"Sometimes you fall out of love with the game when things happen like it happened," he told the media contingent. "But it is what it is. We could have made the top eight if I had stayed, but ..."