Feminine wiles affect ball control

.TSAMAYA fully understands why Kaizer Chiefs players George Lebese and Itumeleng Khune have been distracted in recent times. An effervescent tabloid reported that Lebese, who missed a penalty against Golden Arrows on Wednesday, is "stuffing the turkey" with the curvaceous Afro-pop singer Bucie Nqwiliso - even though he denied the affair. Maybe she comforted Lebese with a soothing musical after the dreadful penalty miss. From a distance, it looks like some cradle-snatching by the voluptuous Bucie.

•  LEBESE'S teammate and Bafana Bafana No1 goalkeeper Khune's eyes are not on the ball either. He is reportedly doing sideways pull-ups with the long-legged TV glamour girl Minnie Dlamini - and this must be worrying his coaches, Vladimir Vermezovic and Pitso Mosimane, after the keeper spilt a routine catch into the path of Collins Mbesuma, who thankfully scored.
•  FORMER Chisa Nyama connoisseur Lerato Chabangu seems to have ditched his bad habits and is once again focusing on his football career. Chabangu had a splendid game against Jomo Cosmos and coach Gordon Igesund is so smitten he cannot stop with the rave reviews. We are praying Chabangu doesn't make his trademark diagonal runs into a Chisa Nyama ever again.

•  HERE at Tsamaya, we are happy to report that DRC club TP Mazembe have discovered football's most closely-guarded secret. This doesn't lie in a second holding midfielder or a second striker, but in owning your own plane. Apparently, Mazembe have got hold of their second jet, a 140-seater that landed in Lubumbashi on Sunday. "We want to be an elephant in African football," chairman Moise Katumbi told the BBC. We know what he means. Being a leopard or a gazelle simply wouldn't do.
•  FORMER SuperSport United defender Jeffrey Ntuka is to attend trials with Belgian promotional league club KFC Oosterzonen Oosterwijk. Our party animal friend, who once got klapped at a Chisa Nyama with troublesome mate Jabu Pule, has been without a club since his contract expired at the end of last season. Tsamaya spies saw Ntuka huffing and puffing on Thursday morning, doing some roadwork in a last-minute effort to get into shape .
•  IGESUND is a big dreamer. He says he wants to lower the average age of the Swallows squad within the next two to three years. Swallows currently have the oldest squad in the Premiership. At the rate coaches are fired in the PSL, we reckon that, in three years, Igesund might be sitting on his front porch with his grandchildren reminiscing about the time when he coached Swallows.
•  IT seems Wednesday has become comedy night in the PSL. Between the referees and some of the antics of the players, there was a pretty good show in this week's midweek games. The Golden Arrows players, though, weren't exactly laughing when ref Robert Sithole awarded a penalty after Thanduyise Khuboni "chest-balled" in the area against Kaizer Chiefs. Morgan Gould's sending-off for SuperSport, earning a second yellow card for dropping a ball instead of passing it to Swallows' Siyabonga Nomvethe, completed a nonsensical evening.