NKARENG MATSHE | Hogging headlines because of ill-conceived comments seems to be Mandla Ncikazi’s pastime but this outburst after Orlando Pirates’ defeat to Simba at the weekend has to take the cake.
Ncikazi went on a tirade in the press conference after Pirates were sunk by the Tanzanian side, protesting Pirates had faced “hostility” and had been “treated like animals”, in comments which raised legitimate eyebrows but left some of us feeling the coach may once again have been demonstrating his own lack of international experience.
For starters, Ncikazi was not specific as to what kind of treatment and hostility Pirates faced. He then spoke of the malfunctioning of VAR and a penalty won by Bernard Morrison as dubious. But just on the VAR, some would say it was actually a blessing in disguise that it was not functional, given the horrors it delivered in CAF matches last weekend.
We should assume Ncikazi, privately, viewed those incidences as treatment that could be meted out only to animals, hence his misgivings with what he saw in Dar es Salam.
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