'I certainly wouldn’t have scored two own goals at the World Cup‚' says Neil Tovey

Kaizer Chiefs legend Tovey‚ the captain of the Bafana team who won the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations on home soil‚ was speaking at the launch of his biography‚ titled Neil Tovey: A Captain’s Journey‚ at Exclusive Books at Sandton City this week.He was dropped‚ after Barker was fired and replaced as caretaker-coach by Jomo Sono‚ from the squad for the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso.

“Certainly‚ I have never scored an own goal in my life‚ so I couldn’t have scored two in one particular match.

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