Safa Cape Town deserves red card – but which ref will be bold enough to do the right thing?

In football jargon, coaches will always remind players to focus on the basics and try to perfect it – e.g., make a solid pass, the importance of your first touch, stopping or controlling the ball, or looking up when making a pass…

And when the basics are, so to speak, mastered or perfected, everything else ought to flow from there.

But when one looks at Safa Cape Town, the biggest sports entity that controls football in the Cape Metropole, with approximately a quarter-million affiliated members, then they fall dismally short of even grasping the basics.

In fact, there is no basic understanding of the basics, and this is why the football public has to settle for mediocrity, season after season after season.

This comes after the Mother body’s so-called investigation into another Goalgate scandal on Wednesday came to nothing. This is confirmed in their outcome below.

One would’ve expected that after the initial Goalgate scandal at the William Herbert Sports Complex two years ago, the region would have been more vigilant and on high alert to any irregularities.

But instead, they have dropped the ball due to the lack of the basics and poor planning. One also gets the sense that some are just going through the motions. What else could be the reason for the absence of common sense?

Be that as it may, No Bones with Jones can also shockingly reveal there were no match commissioners present at the Third Division Playoffs at The Greens, which sums up everything.

This was apparently due to the fact that Safa CT prioritized its most senior league, the Third Division, which is currently busy with the Nedbank Cup.

But even so, provision should have been made for the playoffs as well – period! Surely the region has ample match commissioners which could have been deployed at the playoffs.

Mind you, the region could also have delayed the playoffs until after the Nedbank Cup as there is still enough time for it to take place until the break for the Festive season – but heaven only knows.

This just shows once again, it was bad planning from an organisation called the masters of “Football shall be Played.”