SuperSport United are the Azanian People's Liberation Army (Apla) of South African football. During the struggle against apartheid, the now-defunct military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania rallied around the "One Settler, One Bullet" war cry.
SuperSport seem to have adopted their own version of the slogan: "One Season, One Trophy"!
In the last five years, they may not have scooped silverware year on year, but Matsatsantsa a Pitori have amassed five trophies in the passage of that time.
The 2012 Nedbank Cup was followed by the Telkom Knockout in 2014. Another Nedbank Cup was added in 2016 which they duly successfully defended this year.
Just last week, their cup runneth over as they deposited the MTN8 title into their trophy cabinet, confirming their growing reputation as cup specialists.
It is an impressive catalogue of crowns which have been collected by different coaches. That the coaches can come - Gavin Hunt, Gordon Igesund, Stuart Baxter and incumbent Eric Tinkler - and the club still sustains its cup-capturing culture speaks to a shrewd management.What club chairman Khulu Sibiya and chief executive Stan Matthews have done is to create conditions conducive for coaches to thrive.
Cavin Johnson is the only exception in terms of coaches winning at least one trophy during their tenure at United.
Theirs is a management shrewd in the purchase of players. They are regarded as one of the teams with more than a few bob in the league.When they do splash, they venture into the market not motivated by neither emotion nor a mad rush to please their fans, all 95 or so of them.
They yanked holding midfielder Dean Furman from the obscurity of the Championship in England to the familiarity of South Africa's national team. As club captain, 29-year-old Furman the foreman nowadays knows the ecstasy of hoisting high a trophy.
Their single-minded purpose has elevated Matsatsantsa a Pitori to the status of Premier Soccer League heavy hitters.
It is complete credit to this club that South Africa can count Hunt and Pitso Mosimane as successful bona fide South African coaches. SuperSport is their alma mater. It was at this club that the former sprinted into a hat-trick of Premier Soccer League titles between 2007 and 2010.
The latter had converted the club from a lily-white enclave into a spirited outfit that graduated into a force to be reckoned with domestically.
Mosimane has gone on to wear the robe of the best club coach on the African continent with Mamelodi Sundowns, thanks to the sound seven years he spent cutting his teeth at SuperSport...