The Sunday Mail
THIS is the Super Sunday the Lord has made!
The temptation would have been to say let us rejoice in it.
However, with the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season guaranteed to generate pain and tears as it calls for curtains this afternoon, one has to take into account the feelings of the weaker brethren in Apostle Paul style.
This is the Super Sunday the Lord has made.
Some will rejoice in it after finding themselves in pure football heaven.
ZPC Kariba are favourites for the trip to pure football heaven as they just need a win over Caps United to guarantee them a deserved league title in their debut season among the big boys.
Dynamos appear to have blown it, but Dynamos being Dynamos nothing, including turning stones into bread, can be put past them — football-wise.
There is no blasphemy there!
However, DeMbare would need a huge favour from their cross city rivals for the second year running.
A Makepekepe triumph, coupled with a Dynamos win over How Mine, will see the title heading back to the Glamour Boys and their coach Kallisto Pasuwa taking a seat at a virgin table, alone, but not lonely.
Pasuwa will become the first coach to win the league title in four consecutive seasons if DeMbare pull the Houdini Act again.
This is the Super Sunday the Lord has made.
Some will soak themselves in tears after being given the vote of no confidence.
There will be no written reprimands, the league’s supreme decision-making body, the game itself, will deliver the resolution without the aid of a spokesman.
This is football. Is this really the beautiful game? Super Sunday will define the game.
Chiredzi and Bantu Rovers have been sitting in the departure lounge for quite a while now, waiting for two other seats on this journey of shame to be taken up.
Chapungu (remotely), Harare City, Shabanie Mine, Buffaloes, Chiredzi, and Black Rhinos are all candidates for those two seats.
This is the Super Sunday the Lord has made.
Some will go about business with the kissing-your-sister feeling; nothing exciting, just a routine task that needs to be undertaken.
Teams like Highlanders, Chicken Inn, Hwange and How Mine are safe from the guillotine and miles away from the top four matrix.
They are playing for pride.
This is the Super Sunday the Lord has made.
On this day, Herbert Dick will play his last match in a city where it all started, Kadoma.
After more than two decades in the game Dick has decided to call it a day and Bantu Rovers’ visit to Rimuka will be his swansong.
One hopes Dick won’t live up to his name and get a red card in his final game.
The lad has had his fair share of sending off in his career, he is a legend.
“I have done my part; it’s time I gave others a chance and concentrate on other things . . . coaching maybe. It’s quite interesting that my final game is in Kadoma and I would love to end my career on a high and so will do all I can to ensure that we get a win over Black Rhinos,” said the 35-year-old defender.
This is the Super Sunday the Lord has made.
Let us indulge in it.
ZPC Kariba have it all in their hands; a win against Caps United will guarantee them the 2014 league title without having to worry about how Dynamos would have fared against How Mine.
A draw could suffice for Chaminuka and his charges, who have punched above their weight this season, provided that DeMbare do not beat How Mine by five clear goals.
A goalless draw between ZPC Kariba and Caps United, iced with a 4-0 drubbing of How Mine by DeMbare will leave the two championship-chasing teams both tied on 57 points and a +18 goal difference.
What happens then?
“We will use the head to head record,” disclosed PSL chief executive Kenny Ndebele.
ZPC Kariba, who collected six points from Dynamos, are not keen on taking the drama that far.
The power is theirs; they can connect or disconnect it.
Although the Premiership débutantes, by name, have tried to be calm about it, with Chaminuka telling his charges that the duel against Caps United is “just a normal game”, there are signs that they can see Canaan.
No, not that Canaan near Gwanzura Stadium, the venue of their clash with Makepekepe.
ZPC Kariba can see the Promised Land and appreciate what they have to do to avoid the Moses episode.
Makepekepe have talked the professionalism talk and will probably try to walk it, too, just like they did in dismissing Harare City on the last day of the 2013 season.
DeMbare can only beat How Mine and hope that the Green Machine will be the gift that keeps on giving.
At the foot of the table, it’s a dog-eat-dog affair, two Castle Premier Soccer League housemates will have to be evicted.
This is the Super Sunday the Lord has made.
