A LOOK INTO THE CHRIS-tal BALL

Dear Reader, it has come to our attention that you are not going to the stadiums anymore. We hear that Gauteng teams have to go far and wide to play games in order to get bums on the seats. Certain rogue elements would like blame the Chris-tal Ball for your lack of interest in going to watch matches at one of the very well built stadiums. Why go to the stadium when you already know the result?!? The Chris-tal Ball takes no blame for your inability to go to premier soccer league matches! I do not blame you. Some of those games are really boring and the entertainment before the match and at half time is….well, it’s really, really bad. Dear Reader I urge to stop being a derby fan only and start going out there to see your teams play, even if your team is Moroka Swallows.




SWALLOWS vs SUPERSPORT UNITED



If Gavin Hunt is really sad and disappointed about the situation at The Dube Birds then he must just tell his boys to lose this one for his former employers. I see more strikers from the past have been roped in to help out with the scoring of goals for the flailing birds. We wish these players the best of luck. Moroka Swallows will need their protesting fans to sing with that band all the way to the final whistle. Supersport will no doubt bring along their band, so at the very least there will be music at Dobsonville Stadium.



SWALLOWS WILL WIN AND EVERYBODY WILL BE HAPPY. Even Gavin Hunt.



AJAX CAPE TOWN vs BIDVEST WITS



Bidvest Wits is everybody’s favourite team at the moment after beating The Rich Ones in Nelspruit. I can however tell you that most of those fans that celebrated that win will not even be watching this game. The small crowd that will go to the stadium can expect a good game of football IF Wits play the same way they did against Sundowns. Please note that the wind usually plays a big part in Cape Town and when the wind behaves, the referees do not.



A DRAW.



MARITZBURG UNITED vs ORLANDO PIRATES



They came, they saw, they conquered and now they are coming again! This time it will be at the correct stadium. The home team will be at home and we shall see if where you play really does make a difference. If Pirates could hand out three in Durban, I do not see how they cannot give out the same hiding in Pietermaritzburg. It’s only a Comrades Marathon away from the site of the last massacre. So Mazinyo dot com better hope his charges win. I can tell you now they will not. Pirates need to stay in touch with peace lovers and the rich ones so they will not show any mercy, unless of course they are already thinking of a certain cup final.



CHRIS-tal Ball showed Joseph Makanya scoring a hat trick.