The PSL, Covid-19 and a scary strategy of play-at-all-cost

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What is going on? Well, it would have been nice if the PSL would let us know.

Dr. Irvin Khoza and his Premier Soccer League colleagues have plenty of explaining to do. Picture: Christiaan Kotze/BackpagePix.Kaizer Chiefs’ Covid-19 saga – what has happened so far

According to Cape Town City owner and PSL executive committee member John Comitis, whose team were supposed to play Chiefs on Saturday, the PSL did write to Chiefs refusing their request. And still the league remained tight-lipped, heading into another executive committee meeting yesterday. It is surely the decision by the Exco to simply blanket ban teams from postponing games due to Covid-19 that is the problem here, and not Chiefs refusing to play, because they have had 31 cases of Covid-19 at the Amakhosi village.

 

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