Bring back football Fridays and unite Mzansi fans

Club-based bragging not good for the national solidarity

- Kgomotso Mokoena

While Bafana Bafana were dissecting hapless Rwanda as if they were lab rats to book a place at the 2026 Fifa World Cup midweek, a section of local football followers started behaving worryingly and childishly.

When fans of Orlando Pirates, Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs started bragging and having a go at each other, it was so disparaging. If it is meant to be banter, it does not sound funny at all. In fact, it is childish.

That it came out from some grown-arse men across the country makes you want to conclude that these folks may have just discovered what national team football is all about.