CAF puts PSL in a pickle
18/07/2007 22:24  - (SA)  

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Johannesburg - The PSL, following their bizarre blunder of billing the Charity Cup on the same day as Mamelodi Sundowns' Confederation Cup fixture against CS Sfaxien, was in a pickle on Wednesday after CAF rejected for a second time a plea to switch the Premier League champions' game in Tunisia to another date.

"We have done all within our power to convince Caf to agree to a new date," said PSL CEO Trevor Phillips in a statement, "but to no avail."

The PSL, however, are seemingly in a tizzy and not quite sure of their bearings, declaring in their statement that Charity Cup champions Sundowns are down to play TP Mazembe in the DRC on August 4 and not CS Sfaxien in Tunisia.

In an earlier statement, the PSL "rejected scrupulous allegations from a nameless Sundowns official, who claimed the League had made a mess in scheduling the date of the Charity tournament."

The general consensus in soccer circles is that the allegation was indeed "scrupulous" - although the PSL might have got their vocabularly haywire in the process.

And Phillips followed up the PSL's fixture blunder with an "I'm all right Jack" assertion that "should Sundowns qualify for the Charity Cup, but select to play in the Caf competition, the team with the next highest score in the voting process will automatically replace them in the tournament in Mmabatho."

- SAPA

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