Time to confront the crisis at the heart of the game

SOUTH African football is in crisis.

- INDEPENDENT MEDIA SPORTS TEAM

And not the kind that can be spun away with PR talk about “transition phases” or “teething problems.”

This is structural decline: boardroom power plays, unpaid players, clubs being bought and sold with minimal vetting of new owners, and governing bodies that often look the other way.

The Pretoria High Court's scathing judgment against Royal AM - a club already expelled from the PSL should be a tipping point.

The court ruled that the PSL had valid grounds to expel the club, even before it was placed under business rescue by SARS in November 2024. Why?