Discounting the deplorable violence, snaking traffic jams and a long delay to kickoff, we can safely say for the first time in a while we were served a real Soweto derby on Sunday.
From Kaizer Chiefs coach Khalil Ben Youssef threatening to walk out of the press conference because he had been made to wait to Abdeslam Ouaddou, his Orlando Pirates counterpart, having a full go at Amakhosis tactics, this past weekends derby was not mollycoddled in pretentious diplomatic language and platitudes.
As the away coach, Ben Youssef fired the first salvo by branding the pre-match brawl apparently sparked by Pirates officials encroaching onto Chiefs half during warmup, forcing Chiefs security officials to fight back a shame for SA football.
