Pressing Issues: Save us the usual football season-end shenanigans

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Pressing Issues: Save us the usual football season-end shenanigans
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The end of season means an increase in protests lodged with match officials and the intensification of referees’ criticism. Football authorities need to be decisive in order to save football-loving people from these shenanigans, writes SBu_Mseleku

Since 1971 when the NPSL came into being, it has been a sure bet that once the league title race hits the home straight and the dogfight to avoid relegation intensifies, all sorts of shenanigans ensue.These include an increase in the number of protests lodged with match officials and the league as well as the intensification of referees’ criticism.

And then totally threw his toys out of the cot: “I’ll rather take myself out of the equation because it’s not worth coaching when you have to suffer every single time like tonight.” According to the complainants, this is one of the reasons the KwaZulu-Natal side has made a dramatic climb up the log and even unseated Stellenbosch briefly last weekend, before the latter’s victory over TS Galaxy on Tuesday night took them back to the plateau.

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