AmaZulu chairman Sandile Zungu has made a plea to Kaizer Chiefs, saying postponing games would end up in a disaster.
Usuthu, who finished in second place in the DStv Premiership last season, have qualified for the CAF Champions League group stages, which will start in 2022.
As a consequence, he has pleaded with Chiefs and the league to find a way forward that won’t involve postponing matches.
“We’d hate to see a postponement of the league. We’re playing in the continent and once we go into the group stages, there is a lot of inflexibility,” he said on the Ultimate Sport Show.
“Combine the issue with the delayed soccer games in the local league, it would be a disaster.
“My best wish is that the program continues as such.”
Zungu insisted that Chiefs – who confirmed that 36 of the club’s personnel tested positive, without specifying how many of them were players – must dig deep and look at MDC players to help out amid their crisis.
“We are all in the same boat, we are all affected by Covid and if four or five regular players cannot feature, like with us here at AmaZulu, we’ve got a squad of 28 players or more players, every team has 28 players,” he explained.
“So they must dig deep in their arsenal and see who can be in the starting line-up of them.
“At AmaZulu, at least two to three players are with the first team and I can always go to them, they are strikers, they are midfielders, nothing stops us from going there if we must.
“We’re living in abnormal times and abnormal measures are not off the desk.
“To postpone the season or to reschedule matches, I’m not so sure it’s the right thing to do but the PSL will have to look at it.”
Chiefs’ game against Golden Arrows tonight is still scheduled to go ahead, despite Amakhosi releasing a statement that they are unable to travel to KwaZulu-Natal.
The PSL are yet to comment publicly on the situation.
