Boksburg win scruffy affair marred by multiple restarts
The half-time score was one-all.
The Boksburg Football Club’s u-17s emerged on the positive side of a hard-fought 3-2 affair against Wynburg Tigers.
The Eastern Super League tie, which was marred by multiple restarts for various reasons, took place at the Boksburg City Stadium on August 11.
The tie had everything unneeded in the beautiful game: off-field interference, grumblings from the Boksburg camp of age cheating and questionable officiating which ultimately led to hostility between the two sides – among others.
Blues attacking star Shane Radebe opened the scoring for the hosts but the lead was short-lived, with the Tigers forcing proceedings to go all square at the interval.
Tempers gradually rose as the game progressed and midway through, a Tigers midfielder received his marching orders for using abusive language against the referee.
It initially made little difference, however, as the Tigers took the lead for the first time in the early stages of the second half.
With Boksburg’s one-man advantage starting to show as the junior Blues began pressing for the equaliser, it came as little surprise that the Tigers’ lead was short-lived, too with Mphethe Moletsane scoring the Blues’ equaliser in the 49th minute.
The restarts continued, continuously disturbing the flow of the game. The occasion even saw a furious supporter rushing down to the touchline because one of Tigers’ players had allegedly insulted him.
It was one of many situations the man in the middle did not exactly handle well.
Meanwhile, Ernest Seforo’s men concentrated on the task at hand and they regained their advantage through a deliciously delivered airborne through pass which forward Rudean Peters controlled and put past the visitors’ advancing goalkeeper in the 69th minute.
With approximately five minutes to go, the inevitable happened as Happy Matapa was shoved off the ball at full speed and hit his back against the bench’s steel bar.
Tempers boiled over.
The incident immediately triggered an uncontrollable melee between players and fans – forcing the ref to stop the match prematurely.
The result was registered as a Blues win. – @SabeloBoksbur
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