adminELSEWHERE in our sports pages we carry a story in which Highlanders caretaker coach, Mark Mathe, dismisses rumours that he sabotaged former head coach Kelvin Kaindu, ahead of his side’s crucial assignment away to CAPS United today.
“I do not know where (the rumours) are coming from and I can’t give them credence because we had been working well with Kaindu but results were eluding us. At this stage my focus is on the remaining games because we have to collect maximum points in our remaining matches and achieving set goals. I can’t be thinking about those things,” said Mathe.
In the same article Highlanders’ devotee Faith Silandulo Dube contends that Mathe was in a tight spot as either result, win or lose, still the lanky gaffer remains susceptible to blame.
“I think the person who is in a fix particularly from critics is Mathe. He can be a victim of victory on Sunday (today) because if he wins on Sunday, some may jump and say ‘look, he was sabotaging Kaindu with the players’.
“When he (Mathe) loses, some critics also might jump and say, ‘look Kaindu was not the real problem.’ However, people should be above the personalities and look at the bigger interest which is Highlanders,” cautioned Dube.
But that said, there is always bound to be all round pressure on who takes over at Bosso.
Taking over responsibility at a big institution like Highlanders is equally a tall order, especially when one is thrust at the helm of a team bedeviled by hopelessness, cries of perceived sabotage, and divided loyalties.
But conversely the challenge provides one with an opportunity to shine and perhaps’ show all and sundry that they are cut from a different cloth.
Like it or not, Mathe is now at the helm, and ready to use the opportunity to confound us all, barring a “sabotage” from any quarter.
An opportunity can be described as a time or set of circumstances that make it possible to do something, while sabotage is to deliberately destroy, damage or obstruct something to your advantage. Both the above are attributable to Mathe.
As Mathe assumes the reins at a Highlanders club which has lost hope in the championship quest, although, on the contrary, with six games to go, statistics show that Highlanders still have a hell of a chance to walk away with the Bacon.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless, but the Highlanders family can take solace when their “new commander” shows that he is full of lords of hope.
“What’s important is to go there and fight for everything because that’s what we want and what the fans desire too. We are going there with a positive mind, as we try to recover from two successive defeats,’’ Mathe was quoted as saying by our sister paper The Chronicle.
But Highlanders being the oldest football club in this country, Bosso being the way of life to many in this City of Kings, infact when Bosso sneezes in this part of the country almost everyone catches the cold.
We can only, FINALLY, appeal to the Highlanders family to use today’s result to put on hold the turbulence that has rocked their team in the past weeks.
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