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Forward by Author
This piece of work has been put together not only for football passionate readers but also for a much wider readership who may find it worthwhile to put their assignments aside for a short time to navigate through the daring thoughts honestly expressed throughout the book. The aim is to engage the readers to make analysis, evaluate and draw intelligent conclusions on the abundance of relevant issues raised. The thoughts expressed take a closer look at the PSL as well as SAFA so as to allow the country’s football enthusiasts to look at our football realities from an unbiased perspective. The profiles of prominent administrators and club owners are given some attention while football household names of yester years, more recent years and current players are highlighted. This is done as a means of driving home some points understood to be more critical to pull ourselves out of condemnation and relegation to nothingness by the proponents, agents and marketers of foreign football philosophy. The book relives the past glories and the days of the unrestrained expression of the art of playing football our way in a manner that is successful and sustainable and is the only way that has the capacity to put us on a global pedestal that will allow us to laugh last. The book acknowledges and echoes the lamentation that has become a common cause for concern about the ongoing decline of the game of football in this country on both administration and playing levels, the latter being the outcome of the failure of the former. The ongoing loss of opportunity that the football community of this beloved country continues to incur is unequivocally decried. It logically appears, in the view of the everyday happenings flowing from the manner in which football is run, as though the country is in the business of solving a foreign football problem in general and a European one in particular. We should instead be exploiting the problems of every other football playing nation given the capacity we have to do soif only we could discover ourselves and appreciate our resourcefulness. The message is that of lamenting, analysing correcting the wrongs, settling down to play good football and conquer. |