Marawa dunked in slammer after Beemer episode

Supersport presenter and talk show host Robert Marawa knows what it feels like to be in the slammer after a fleeting encounter with some of South Africa's notorious prison gangstas following his arrest for speeding.

His snazzy BMW 650 was clocked at 169km/h in a 120km/h zone on the N1 around 4am last Sunday. Tsamaya's little bird tells us that after paying bail, a traumatised Marawa sped away from the police station as though he had just scored a World Cup winner.

• Marawa appeared in the Randburg Magistrate's Court the following day wearing a dark jacket and sunglasses. Trying to keep his cool, he leant against a wall, looking like a secret agent in some chic Miami cop show. He's expected back in court next month.

• Kaizer Chiefs defender Jeffrey Ntuka also spent time behind bars this week. Ntuka was nabbed for allegedly swearing at police and intimidating behaviour. Tsamaya's neighbourhood newspaper reported that Ntuka and his tiny-tot girlfriend were playing music loudly in his German sedan and refused to turn the volume down. It's not the first time Ntuka's wild ways have landed him in trouble. In October, Chiefs manager "Bobsteak" Motaung told the media Ntuka had confessed to alcohol abuse and that the club would help him solve his personal problems.

• Walter Rautmann, a long-time Tsamaya favourite, tried to make a low-key comeback by joining Swaziland side Mbabane Swallows as an assistant. He walked out after just one week and reports suggest the "King of the Zulus", as Rautmann is still affectionately known, left Swaziland because of his poor relationship with coach Alou Bandara. Walter is now plotting his next move: coaching Bafana Bafana.

• Staying with antiques, Ted "Austin Powers" Dumitru's column, "Understanding the football brain", on the SuperSport website is a breath of fresh air - but only to himself. "One scientific discovery concludes that the gains resulting from simple non-specific training do not transfer to complex game sports. The cause of this is that the sport-specific brain is 'tuned' according to the specifics and complexity of that particular sport. To transfer the effects of general exercise to complex activities, the brain needs to be 'rewired' with new circuits." We are still scratching our heads, but at least we know whose brain needs rewiring!

• The greasy affair that is the hairstyle of Bloemfontein Celtic goalkeeper Patrick Tignyemb was a scary sight in the downpour during the Celtic-Golden Arrows match on a waterlogged pitch on Wednesday. The Cameroonian looked like a wet cat that had been rescued from a overflowing stormwater drain.

• Heard the one about John Terry and the English FA? The FA have cleared Terry of any wrongdoing in relation to Vanessa Perroncel. Apparently there's a line in the FA rule book that says: "If the left back leaves a hole, then the centre back has to fill it."