The chop for Gilbert after trials prove fruitless

04 March 2012 - 02:15 By Tsamaya
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Soccer ball. File photo.
Soccer ball. File photo.
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TSAMAYA was wondering what happened to Haitian skyscraper striker Gilbert Bayonne, who was zig-zagging between Mzansi clubs undergoing trials.

A joke doing the rounds is that after failing with Bidvest Wits and SuperSport United, his height came in handy in his new vocation - picking fruit on a farm somewhere in Thohoyandou. We also hear he does piece jobs as a tree feller in Randburg. "He kicks like a mule," his agent, Rudi Mbele, once boasted. Well, we reckon he chops down trees like an elephant.

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