While the PSL have not made any public statement on Kaizer Chiefs’ request to postpone their DStv Premiership matches, John Comitis has insisted that the league did respond to Amakhosi’s letters.
Chiefs were unable to host Cape Town City at the FNB Stadium on Saturday due to a Covid-19 outbreak at Naturena that saw 31 members of the club’s staff test positive.
This publication understands that Chiefs only had nine players available on Saturday, with three of them being goalkeepers.
As a consequence, Chiefs did not honour their fixture against City, who – along with the match officials – arrived at locked gates at the FNB Stadium.
Cape Town City chairman John Comitis, who is a member of the PSL executive committee, had confirmed on Friday that Chiefs request to postpone their December fixtures had been discussed at an expo meeting on Friday.
Comitis also confirmed that a letter was sent back to Amakhos, declining the request to postpone the matches, and he expected the game to go ahead.
“The league responded to the request of Kaizer Chiefs in writing, saying that under the circumstances they cannot postpone the game. And we [City] have not received any notification from the league that there is no game,” he said on Friday, as per TimesLIVE.
“The league responded to Chiefs before the (exco) meeting that they could not approve their request.
“The exco met and there were a whole lot of circumstances that the exco discussed that are confidential. But at the end of the day Cape Town City has not received any correspondence from the league notifying us that the game is off.”
City appeared for the fixture while Chiefs did not. What has made the situation worse is that there has been no communication from the PSL publically on the matter.
The PSL exco, though, are understood to meet again on Monday to pave a way forward out of the current Covid-19 crisis.
