The Sunday Mail
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MY mailbox is full, full like an ocean after last Sunday’s piece on Dynamos talisman Ocean Mushure.
Was Yours Truly unfair on Ocean, was it something personal or as someone put it, is “Sir a member of the anti DeMbare cabal?”
Allow me to plead Fifth Amendment!
I will not go down that road this week, suffice to say we met with Ocean at the poorly organised Dynamos awards and spoke at length.
We are cool, cooler than before.
As I was leaving the DeMbare charade I saw Tichaona Chipunza and his bum full of T-shirt.
I was beyond shocked by the message, or the bums, that the T-shirt carried!
Chipunza would have been fair game after such an obscenity but we are in the festive season, there is no need for a gloves off approach.
This Sunday is not that type of Sunday, we are just chilling, doing the Christmas thing.
There will be not much carnage, Sir is feeling good.
Even Zifa and Philip Chiyangwa are safe today despite taking us for fools by claiming that the proposed Warriors versus Zambia game had been cancelled because the NSS was booked for a wedding.
Wedding?
Merry Christmas to Xolisani Gwesela, the unfortunate guy who has to issue such comical statements yet he is decently educated.
They say he who pays the piper calls the tune and by playing the tune his master calls Gwesela is earning his dollar albeit at the risk of coming across as a chubby joke.
PC has his plate full, doesn’t he?
Attempts to bootlick the man of the moment are said to have been shot down and Jonathan Mashingaidze is firing like a drunken master.
Unperturbed Chiyangwa has announced that he will seek re-election next year and has started showing some muscle with provincial chairmen coming out to say they will back his bid.
That is Chiyangwa the politician at his best!
But there is a long way to go between now and those Zifa elections, anything can happen and PC knows it.
Merry Xmas PC, you need the good wishes especially at such a time in your stint as Zifa boss.
Happy Holidays too to Zifa VP Omega Sibanda, himself a regular subject of this column.
Each time he gets the Sir treatment “Omz” calls members of the sports desk and says: “Ahhh akomana zvanyanya.”
And when he gets some backing, like was the case when he explained why Walter Magaya featured for the Warriors Legends, the Arsenal fan screams Sir is professional, his favourite columnist after the Godfather, of course.
Did you know that Zifa’s head of finance, Philemon Machana, is also an opposition party leader?
PC has good company although the pair are from different political parties.
Happy holidays Phil!
One man I know who never misses an instalment is Norman Mapeza, the gaffer who has had a year made in heaven.
Mapeza is yet to realise his dream of having lunch with Sir but remains an ardent reader.
We have had our run-ins but there is mutual respect between us, he recognises who or what I am and I respect him as the best coach in Zimbabwe.
Mapeza reckons people like me are needed in our game.
“Hakuna musha usina benzi. Criticism is also needed once in a while,” Mapeza once told a member of The Sunday Mail Sports Desk.
And contrary to some rumours, Mapeza is married and has a tight family solidly standing behind him.
As we laud Mapeza for some fine work, spare a thought for Norman Togara, the motor-mouth former FC Platinum defender who publicly stated that Pure Platinum Play would never win anything because they are cursed.
Togara is understood to be bitter about how the club treated him and often used Facebook to celebrate each moment FC Platinum came short.
But the guy has been conspicuous by his silence as FC Platinum celebrate finally ticking a box they have always wanted to tick.
Merry Christmas Togara, wezhira, wezhara wezhowe-zhowe.
ZPC Kariba team manager Paul Chimalizeni is allegedly managing the sexual needs of a certain player’s wife.
There are some incriminating pictures circulating too and because of that Sir will not be wishing Popopo a Merry Christmas!
Asante Sana.
Sir exits the scene!
