The Sunday Mail
18area.coms with VaShagare
JOEY ANTIPAS equated him to a bottle of wine made a century ago.
And last Wednesday at Luveve and in Chicken Inn’s biggest game of the season, Clemence Matawu showed his true value as the Gamecocks took another giant step towards a maiden league title.
The veteran midfielder did much more than score the equaliser that secured Chicken Inn a point which felt like three.
He was the conductor of the log leaders’ orchestra.
For a guy who has been through so much, Matawu’s rise back to the top table of local football is an inspiring story that once again brings the cliché down but not out to the fore.
Sadly, most Zimbabweans could not watch the Naughty Flea’s five star performance as Supersport did not screen the biggest game of the 2015 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season.
They must have a good reason for that one.
This PSL and Supersport deal doesn’t look as glamorous as we were made to believe when it was signed, does it?
“I believe we are about to see the first step of a revolution in our football where things will start getting better for clubs, players and officials,” PSL chairman Twine Phiri was quoted as saying back in 2012.
Well, the good times are yet to roll and there is an urgent need to review this deal.
The clubs are not reaping much benefit as the small boys such as Dongo and Buffaloes can only dream of featuring on SS9 and the Select channels when they play the so-called big boys.
When it was inked, there was talk of a magazine programme, full of highlights and analysis, but that has not happened and does not look like it will happen anytime soon.
Kenya – with their not so exciting football – have a magazine programme and surely it wouldn’t take much for Zimbabwe to have its own 30 minute instalment.
Unlike in the previous seasons, this year local action hasn’t featured much on Supersport.
Those with hyperactive imaginations say the satellite television provider was not amused by the way Caps United boycotted their league tie away to How Mine earlier this season hence it’s cooled off interest in our product.
But then again, Supersport can afford to be aloof when dealing with Zimbabwe because here the national broadcaster has little appetite for the local game.
Growing up, VaShagare was accustomed to the Game of the Week with Admire Taderera’s legendary voice describing the action for us.
Good old days!
Now ZTV gives us weekly dosages of Northern Region Division One football hence we have a situation where we watch Gilbert Mushangazhike penning the final pages of his career and not Edmore Chirambadare blazing his way to the top of the scoring chats.
It’s sad.
We cannot expect a South African based company to have the desire to push our product while we play a passive role, it’s just not on and one hopes Minister Makhosini Hlongwane will chew into this one together with the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Chris Mushowe.
VaShagare exits the scene!
VaShagare is the founder of DeMbare DotComs and can be contacted on that Facebook page as well as the email [email protected].
