Sports Reporter
When the 2012 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season roared to life, many expected the usual suspects Dynamos and big-spending FC Platinum to hog the limelight as usual by dominating the race.

But FC Platinum have already fired their coach after 13 weeks of action; Dynamos have given coach Kalisto Pasuwa a three-match ultimatum; while the CAPS United camp is in turmoil over who should really be in charge between Sean Connor and Lloyd Chitembwe.
One team has remained unfazed by the developments happening elsewhere, not only sticking to their coach but also clinging on to pole position.
And there is no prize for guessing who that is other than current premiership pacesetters Highlanders.

It has been a good six years since the class of 2006, led by a super-charged Methembe Ndlovu, fresh from a stint in the United States, brushed aside all and sundry to claim a fourth league title since the turn of the millennium and one could feel that this institution was putting DeMbare’s 18-league title record under serious threat.

However, in the ensuing years, the script took quite a fairytale turn as new characters engraved their names in domestic football folklore with Monomotapa United, Gunners and Motor Action all winning the league in successive years and DeMbare widening their gulf with the rest with two more titles.
Bosso looked clueless, becoming a team which belonged to history and the once intimidating Barbourfields Stadium lost its aura as any team could come at will and collect the necessary points.

The unusual trend of hiring and firing coaches became a consistent reality as three coaches, who included Methembe, Madinda Ndlovu and Mkhuphali Masuku, felt the heat and packed their bags.
But it takes patience and focus to start climbing back to the very top.

Bosso are sitting pretty at the apex of the league with 28 points from 12 matches, opening up a four-point gap between them and FC Platinum and, most crucially, eight ahead of DeMbare.

CAPS United, their opponents at Barbourfields today, are a good nine points off the pacesetters.
It was a bold move by the old Temba Ndlela-led Bosso executive to rope in Zambian coach Kelvin Kaindu and a wise decision by the new Peter Dube committee to retain their former player who has masterminded an unbeaten run since taking over from Masuku during the off-season.

Suddenly the fans, who had abandoned the stadia, are swelling up at Barbourfields to make it the impregnable fortress it had become at the turn of the century.
What makes Bosso’s recent run more impressive is their goal appetite which has seen them score 24 times and concede just seven, a clear indication of a combative unit which thrives on defensive stability and fast-flowing football.

Players like Graham Ncube, Milton Ncube and Peter Moyo have been in irresistible form for the log leaders and have been the prime engineers of the team’s superb displays on the park with the two Ncubes banging goals with increased regularity.
Not to be outdone is former Motor Action man Masimba Mambare, who is enjoying a new lease of life in the black and white strip, together with former Monomotapa

United stalwart Mthulisi Maphosa, who has been nothing but a great find for the rebuilding Bulawayo giants.
Kaindu, the architect of the renaissance, is as cool as a cucumber in such a devastating start to the season, insisting that Bosso is a work in progress.
“It has been a good start to the season and I’m happy with how we have conducted ourselves so far in the season and I am not talking about us being championship contenders yet.

“The players are not under any pressure to deliver and they are just focused on delivering quality performances on the pitch.
“We are a work in progress and we are aware that all teams are aiming to stop us, but we will try to maintain our focus and I am happy with what we have done,” a bubbly Kaindu said.

It is still early days yet, but one will stand and give a bow to a team which has virtually fooled statisticians and set the pace in the league race.
So many questions still have to be answered in the coming weeks and months as the year-long marathon unravels, but one pertinent question will hover above the football pundits for many days to come.

Is the Bosso juggernaut rediscovered its destructive force?