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But this was one game that Makepekepe did not want to lose, their coach Lloyd Chitembwe can stomach losing to any other coach on this earth but Mapeza.
IN the end, Norman Mapeza tried to sound gracious in defeat but that high pitched voice betrayed the frustration, the pain of missing out on the league title.
“We never said we were fighting for the championship,” said Mapeza in a post match interview.
Really Norman?
You might not have said it publicly but you were fighting for the championship just like all the other 15 teams and being disappointed at watching Chicken Inn win it ahead of your FC Platinum is normal.
If indeed Pure Platinum Play weren’t fighting for the title, why was Mapeza miffed by the manner in which Caps United players played the clock as they suffocated his team’s championship dream?
“Is this football? The Caps United players were sitting down in the last five minutes, is this football?
“I was really pissed off with what Caps United players were doing,” the FC Platinum coach was also quoted as saying after the 1-all draw with Makepekepe.
But this was one game that Makepekepe did not want to lose, their coach Lloyd Chitembwe can stomach losing to any other coach on this earth but Mapeza.
These two used to be tight buddies as they grew up in Chitungwiza and played for Wieslaw Grabowski’s Darryn T but something happened along the way.
You see, not all friendships can stand the test of time like the one between Alois Bunjira and Stewart Murisa.
Some say Mapeza and Chitembwe could not go the distance as friends because they both want to dominate while others claim the breakdown stemmed from the fact that the two played in the same position.
The other claim is scandalous, I won’t even bother repeating it lest I get called by a light skinned detective from Harare Central Police Station at 10 pm and get charged with publishing falsehoods!
Meanwhile, Chitembwe is said to have snubbed a handshake from Mapeza but the Caps mentor hit back at the criticism levelled against his boys.
“I respect Mapeza’s opinion,” said Chitembwe before going on to rubbish the opinion he had just claimed to respect.
“I only coach Caps United and I don’t coach FC Platinum and I don’t think he coaches Caps either. We are professionals and we had to do what we meant to do and that was to play football which was best for the team and the Caps United family.”
Oh Lloyd, you witty bastard!
Yours truly loves it when coaches provide interesting sound bites during post match interviews.
This “my boys played to instruction” business stinks to high heavens.
However, I don’t love it when coaches wet their post match interviews with tears like what Flame Lilly gaffer Takesure Chiragwi did at Ascot last Sunday.
Chiragwi could not stomach a last minute Whawha equaliser which confirmed his team’s relegation from the top flight league after only a season among the big boys.
That the draw came against an already relegated fellow prisons side must have added salt to Chiragwi’s wound, hence the tears.
And the Whawha players rubbed it in by shouting “toyenda tese (we will go together)”, after the final whistle.
Lloyd Mutasa had vowed that his team would not do Flame Lily any favours and true to his word, Chekera Pasi chopped their cousins into the relegation baggage bag.
Now I hear Mutasa stands accused of being bribed by another relegation threatened team so that his boys would avoid defeat against Flame Lily.
Sour grapes I say, sour grapes!
Va Shagare exits the scene!
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