Safa does not want PSL to return, fumes City boss John Comitis

Club owners accuse the association of ‘moving the goalposts’ with a target date of August 1

The SA Football Association and the Premier Soccer League have hit another impasse on a planned return to play‚ with club owners accusing the association of “moving the goalposts”.

Safa acting CEO Tebogo Motlanthe denied this. He said the association’s major issue is not referee fitness but ensuring compliance‚ and a key meeting on the issue has not taken place — especially given that the association can be held liable should the plan for a biologically safe environment fail. “I’m in for R120‚000 on testing to return to play in this [bio-safe] bubble and respect the protocol‚” Comitis said.

“What is the worry about the referees’ fitness? They have 10 days. And you saw [former referee] Ace Ncobo’s comments [in a report in The Citizen] that a referee is like a professional footballer — that’s the nature of his job, to stay fit.

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