Iron Duke rolls out the potent sleeping tablets

PSL CHAIRMAN Irvin Khoza brought in the heavy artillery when he summoned his entire executive committee to the press conference to clarify the PSL stance regarding the national under-23 fiasco. With all the PSL Mafioso sitting alongside the "Iron Duke", it was all systems go as Khoza sent us to slumberland by playing a lengthy clip of a meeting between Safa and the PSL.

PSL marketing man Peter Mancer was also there, surprise, surprise! He was standing right behind Khoza like an FBI agent or one of Barack Obama's bodyguards while Patrick Sokhela, Stan Mathews and Goolam Allie sat there scratching their gonads.

THE day before, poor under-23 coach Shakes Mashaba had organised his own conference. What a contrast to the fancy and packed Khoza gathering. Mashaba cut a lone figure as he faced journalists crammed like sardines into a tiny room in the Holiday Inn in Tshwane.

ORLANDO Pirates' sleep-inducing Brazilian coach, Julio Leal, was in his element last week after his side's hard-fought victory over Moroka Swallows. With the clock ticking towards midnight, Leal gave members of the media midnight blues. We are feeling terribly sorry for his poor grandchildren.

STAYING with the Leal family, we recently noticed Julio's younger brother Jairo has a new hobby. While Julio is hypnotising the media, his young boet spends time crawling the tattoo parlours of Jozi and Rio de Janeiro. "Chimneys", as Jairo is fondly known due to his affection for cigarettes, will soon look like a Texas biker with his body graffiti.

BAFANA Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns No1 striker Katlego "Killer" Mphela's love of the nightlife is going to get him into trouble. A couple of years ago, Mphela was klapped silly in a nightclub parking lot in Pretoria. The Sowetan reported this week that the nightclub-crawling hot striker was involved in another fracas over a beautiful young thing.

WHO would have guessed Black Leopards will be representing South Africa at the African Confederations Cup next year. The club have conceded 20 goals in 10 matches and we're hoping they're not going to come back with rugby-like score lines.

TSAMAYA is pleased to report that now the World Cup circus has moved on, Soccerex has too. They're in Brazil in fact (no surprises there) swinging their way to another big payday as they bring football people of all hues together, usually asking host cities to pay for it while squirelling away the profits. It's a good ruse because by the time the locals realise they've been had, the World Cup (and indeed Soccerex) has moved on. This is the first premise of global capitalism, make your money and then run like mad, preferably to where they're more gullible than in the place you just left.