Even if high-flying Mamelodi Sundowns successfully defend their league title this season, they are at risk of forfeiting it immediately thereafter.
The Premier Soccer League is expected to announce sanctions against the club at the end of the season — that’s less than five games away. Sundowns were recently found guilty by the PSL of having fielded an ineligible player during their game against Bidvest Wits on October 8, a game which added in a 1-1 draw.
This basically means that if the sanction, which would typically be a points deduction, gets issued at the end of the season, it will be too late for The Brazilians to cover the deducted points. And then the team in second place will automatically lift the trophy. PSL prosecutor Nande Becker has justified the delay and argues that Sundowns were partly responsible for the delay.“It was a complicated matter in a sense that the argument raised by Sundowns was one that required some consideration,” says Becker.
At the end of last season, Ajax Cape Town was in a similar predicament, in a case they eventually lost at the South Gauteng High Court.
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