Why must you be the rotten apple that spoils the bag, Safa?

Trust the palookas at Safa to do everything in their power to be that proverbial fly in the ointment even if there is no need for any such drama.

- Editorial

Our national football teams have been doing pretty well despite the incompetent lot marching to failed mayor Danny Jordaan’s drumbeat at Safa.

Bafana Bafana, the senior men’s team, have been emulating Banyana Banyana, making a habit of winning, topped last year by the podium finish at the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Cote d’Ivoire.

Banyana famously won the Women’s Afcon in Morocco in 2022, and – for good measure – qualified for the Fifa Women’s World Cup Down Under where they gave a good account of themselves, slaying more fancied opposition.

They had raised the bar significantly higher, our girls, that there was really no room for then notoriously woeful Bafana not to be inspired.

Today, as a nation, we are all walking with chests pumped out and proud of our boys as we claim our place among footballing nations to be reckoned with.