South Africa

This is unacceptable and deserves an official Inquiry. Forget for a moment the fact that we are the 2010 hosts and should be making our mark in World soccer, instead lets look at exactly who beat us last week (convincingly at that). Burkina Faso is a country with a population a third of our own, they have never qualified for the World Cup and (apart for a fourth place in 1998) they have never advanced beyond the first round of African Nations Cup. Go figure.

 

However, to blame everything on one loss is to be disengenuos, rather lets be honest - we've been getting progressively worse since our triumph in 1996. -

 

African Nations Cup record

1994 - Did not qualify
1996 - Champions
1998 - Second place
2000 - Third place
2002 - Quarterfinals
2004 - Round 1

 

Instead of getting solutions to the problem we are provided with a whole bunch of spin by SAFA, the Ministry of Sport and the players. This farce has got to stop. What gets to me even more is while the Springbok Rugby is close to the top of world rugby, Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile is engaged in a personal spat with SA Rugby boss Brian van Rooyen. He even went so far as to call for a judicial commission of inquiry into allegations of maladministration in Rugby. Where the hell are the priorities? Our soccer is collapsing and we have just been humiliated in front of the rest of the soccer world and our Sports Minister is out settling a personal score? I don't think I have read one word of reaction from Stofile on this debacle..

 

Yeah lets have an inquiry - into soccer!