Durban City head coach Simo Dladla feels rather bizarre not lifting the trophy on the final day of the Motsepe Foundation Championship after the PSL confirmed there will be no trophy handover pending outcome of a DC case.
City beat Cape Town Spurs 1-0 on Sunday to relegate them to the ABC Motsepe League to open up a five-point gap at the top after ORBIT College played to a goalless draw with relegated Leruma United.
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The game was played under protest after the Urban Warriors submitted a protest letter before the game stating that Durban City player Saziso Magawana was incorrectly registered. The sittings are expected to take place on Tuesday, 20 May, to determine the outcome.
Dladla spoke to the media after the game and stated that he was concerned by the fact that there’s no trophy on the last day to crown them as champions, also stating that there are people who are jealous. He also took time to give props to the University of KwaZulu-Natal for helping the players deal with the mental aspect of the game.
“The intervention of professionals, we have a very good relationship with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, so they kept us in check mentally, and they kept us fresh with the interventions of the sport science that really helped us as well,” Dladla said.
“I would say credit to those interventions, we suffered mentally really this season at one stage, we lost a player a month ago, if not mistaken, two months ago, we lost Sinamandla Zondi, who was a regular player who featured I think, about 24 games, so those interventions made a difference.”
Dladla went on to talk about his concerns over the no-show of the trophy on the final day of the league after it was confirmed by the PSL that there will be no trophy handover, as there’s still a pending DC that might change things drastically.
“It does concern me, and it makes me wonder where this game is going, and I don’t want to be political about it, but people like to cut corners; they don’t want to go the long way.
“I think it’s desperation and attempts from haters and people who think they can have it the other way around.” Dladla added.
