Orlando Pirates

Remember Gerald Modabi at Orlando Pirates during mid-2000s? You're forgiven if you can't. The club have had so many midfielders with short stays.

The 26-year-old is yet to get on the matchday green grass since last year in the CAF Champions League. This former Orlando Pirates star started earning money while in matric. Seng’funa u-mam straight.” [I suddenly lost interest in the girl I had my eye on in class. I literally was taking R5 to school as a matriculant in 1999. I was now interested in my teacher]. “The first money I had in my hand…

The match will be played at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane in the evening. Baroka coach Kgoloko Thobejane says Pirates must anticipate a tough encounter.

We have been preparing, [we] will come with our own plan – we need to take the team away [from the relegation],” adds Thobejane. The Brazilians are leading 3-0 after Mamelodi Sundowns’ Uruguayan-born midfielder, Gaston Sirino scored the first goal of the match in the 19th minute of the first half. The match will be played at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane in the evening.

As an unattached coach, a couple of Orlando Pirates fans raided Gavin Hunt's Twitter handle and spoke of a move to Mayfair.

The ex-Bidvest Wits coach will head to Manchester on April 18 to spend a few days at the Etihad, where he will observe and pick up tricks of the trade. Dressed in black in all of the images, some fans took it as a hint at joining Pirates while another supporter commented, “Black suits you coach” followed by crossbones emojis. As seen in fan reactions on his Twitter handle, some supporters even hope for the mentor to one day turn up at Orlando Pirates. Hunt took to his Twitter account where he uploaded a series of photos of himself with a caption that read, “nothing like the beautiful game.”’

Orlando Pirates have a chance to dislodge Kaizer Chiefs from third spot on the PSL standings when they face Baroka FC at Peter Mokaba Stadium on Tuesday.

But with Baroka having forced a 0-0 draw against Pirates in the reverse league fixture in December 2021, they could be fancying collecting something from the Soweto giants again. On the league front, Bagkaga Ba Mphahlele have conceded six goals in their last two games and Pirates would be hoping for their opponents’ defence to stay leaking. He would be hoping hosting Pirates will not be another difficult evening to explain to the Baroka fans what could have happened.