Broos’ Bafana have nation smiling again, but familiar incompetence continues to linger

I WAS sick to my stomach this week, almost to the point of gagging.

- ZAAHIER ADAMS

And that’s not because I am currently observing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, where I’m required to avoid neither food and drink from sunrise to sunset.

No, it was instead due to the embarrassing situation related to Bafana Bafana midfielder, Jeboho Mokoeana’s yellow-card controversy that could see the national football team be docked three valuable Fifa World Cup qualifying points.

For the inauspicious Bafana fielded Mokoeana in last Friday evening’s 2-0 victory over Lesotho at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, despite the Mamelodi Sundowns star having picked up a yellow card in the previous World Cup qualifiers against Benin (MD1) and a second in the following match against Zimbabwe (MD4).

Fifa’s regulations clearly indicate that a player who accumulates two yellow cards in separate matches must automatically serve a one-match suspension.

Why was Mokoena then played against Lesotho? Was it an oversight? Won’t deliberate?