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WHEN two brothers fight, the stranger is best advised to stay out of the melee lest he ends up on the receiving end.
It is with that in mind that I will not be biting into the Wicknel Chivayo issue as the lines have become too blurred for my simple, non-journalistic mind.
With that obese dude who suffers from oral diarrohea out of the way, my lenses turn to Paulo Jorge Silva, the Dynamos coach who has been behaving like Charlie Chaplin since the day he entered our borders.
There he was at Barbourfields last Saturday, engaging in some touchline tiff with the SuperSport crew.
As Dynamos were losing to Chicken Inn, the temperamental Silva was losing his mind on the touchline, demanding that the SuperSport crew show him an instant replay of some in-the-box hullaballoo.
One of the brothers I referred to at the beginning of this instalment has already described Silva as unstable in his ways and I cannot agree more with that golden description.
Where in the world have you ever seen a coach going gaga like that?
Poor Lloyd Mutasa had the difficult task of restraining a charging Silva, all this at a time when Dynamos needed direction from the technical bench as they were being outplayed by an on-fire Chicken Inn.
Just days after that BF drama, Silva was having another fall out with skipper Augustine Mbara and goalkeepers’ coach Gift Muzadzi after a nasty exchange with Prophet Walter Magaya.
The Portuguese gaffer is losing the DeMbare dressing room at an alarming rate and club president Kenias Mubaiwa must be getting tired of answering the same question from the club’s board members.
“Nhaimi vaMubaiwa, kamunhu aka makakawana kupiko? (Mr Mubaiwa, where did you get this little fellow?)” the DeMbare godfathers are asking, consistently.
And Mubaiwa’s answer is hilarious but true: “Takamuwana paInternet (We found him on the Internet).”
“Ahh akomana mungatsvage coach paFacebook isu tine vana vakawanda vakuda kuita macoach eteam? (Seriously guys, how can you recruit a coach from Facebook when we have Dynamos sons who are ready to do the job?),” the old men ask as they shake their heads.
We really need to have our minds decolonised as this habit of thinking that anyone white, even a school coach, is better than the gaffers we have locally.
There is now way you can tell me that Silva is better than Antipas, better than Mapeza, better than “Bambo” Chunga.
I would dare say even Maxwell Takaendesa Jongwe, that aging man who failed dismally at Caps United and has been suspended under dubious circumstances by Phillip Chiyangwa, is a better coach than this Portuguese journeyman.
Dynamos are certainly bigger than Silva and something tells me this guy from the land of Mourinho will not have a long and fruitful stay at DeMbare.
Now that’s an ugly jersey
I know accusations of bias and sour grapes will be thrown my way, together with the kitchen sink, but that Caps United jersey is the second ugliest kit I have seen in my 43 years on Earth.
Number one goes to Golden Arrows of South Africa.
That Makepekepe strip looks like a burial society uniform and the fact that the company which “manufactured” it is owned by club directors Nhamo Tutisani and Mordecai Sachikonye makes the whole case quite interesting.
Quite ironic that a club whose president, Farai Jere, is one of the best-dressed football administrators in the country dresses like beggars!
Yes, yes I know that it’s “not the kit that plays the game”, but who said a team cannot play well and dress well too?
VaShagare exits the scene!
VaShagare is the founder of DeMbare DotComs and can be contacted on that Facebook page as well as the email shagare18area.gmail.com
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