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Ideally, we should have some clarity on Saturday from the Premier Soccer League over their contestation of the outcome of the South African Football Association presidential election held in September.
The PSL's board of governors convene to deliberate on the "legal opinion" which they decided to seek following their meeting last month, filling some of us with hope that this saga can finally find closure.
But do not bet on it. It is 45 days since Kirsten Nematandani was elected unopposed as Safa president, but the PSL have yet to publicly endorse him, and the theories which have emerged could make you fear the worst is still to come.
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Disaffected Safa regions who backed Irvin Khoza in the race are apparently planning to resort to court action - illegal under Fifa statutes - because they believe their prospects of success from an arbitrator appointed by Nematandani's administration are slim.
'It is 45 days since Kirsten Nematandani was elected unopposed' They believe they have a strong case, but, not surprisingly, they base their argument on exactly the same grounds as the PSL. "The election (on September 26) should not have gone ahead once the electoral officers had walked out," one regional member told me this week. That in the transcripts, the electoral officers admit clearly that they have no power to postpone the election, seems an irrelevance to these disgruntled regions.
But protests from a low-ranking regional member who is disillusioned because he won't make a killing from the World Cup 2010 can easily be dismissed as sour grapes. Complaints from a professional league worth billions of rand and which has some high-profile members serving in Safa and Fifa structures such as the World Cup organising committee, cannot be ignored, though. Nor can the PSL afford to send mixed messages.
After Saturday's meeting, they must come out and tell us whether they are going to arbitration, and if so, on what grounds.
'Safa should remember they don't have players'
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