This is a book written a few years back about the state and future of a Zimbabwean most famous club, Highlanders Football Club of Bulawayo.
The book summarises the history of the club, its formation, isolation from the league, in-cooperation into main stream football, the great and worst moments and how it can harness its great stature to come out of the perennial financial crises perennially.
A chapter by chapter post per week version will be published in this blog for your consumption. Further to this book, there will be another, 'The Midfield Generals', an almost player by player summery of the legends of the club.
It is my hope that the followers of the club will embrace a culture of growing the brand further, and that the powers that be will be able to take a few tips and harness the huge following of the club to make financially sound decision to implant a fiscal discipline to their successors.
This is also meant to introduce the club to those less familiar to it and hopefully recruit them to this massive brand of raw passion and greatness.
Your contributions and comments are welcome. Looking forward to our first post tomorrow.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Eight was uMTHATHA BUCKS of the Eastern Cape
Inconsistent in performance generally, Mthatha Bucks had moments where they led the pack, but then disappeared to mid table cushion until the end.
| Date | Opponents | H/A | GF | GA | Goal Scorer/s | Log |
| 27 Aug 16 | STELLENBOSCH FC | H | 3 | 1 | NJOKWENI (2) ; MNCUBE | WK 1 -1 |
| 10 Sep 16 | WITBANK SPURS | A | 1 | 0 | MNCUBE | WK 2 -1 |
| 17 Sep 16 | AMAZULU | H | 2 | 2 | RANTANBANE ; MOKHELE | WK 3 -1 |
| 24 Sep 16 | JOMO COSMOS | A | 0 | 1 | WK 4 -4 | |
| 01 Oct 16 | BLACK LEOPARDS | H | 2 | 2 | MNCUBE ; RANTANBANE | WK 5 -5 |
| 15 Oct 16 | CT ALL STARS | A | 0 | 1 | WK 6 -8 | |
| 22 Oct 16 | MBOMBELA UN ITED | H | 2 | 1 | MNCUBE ; NLOKWENI | WK 7 -6 |
| 26 Oct 16 | REAL KINGS FC | A | 2 | 2 | KANGWA (2) | WK 8 -6 |
| 29 Oct 16 | THANDA ROYAL ZULU | H | 2 | 2 | NGEBO ; SITHOLE | WK 9 -5 |
| 05 Nov 16 | MAGESI FC | A | 1 | 1 | MNCUBE | WK10 -6 |
| 19 Nov 16 | ROYAL EAGLES | H | 1 | 1 | KANGWA | WK11 -6 |
| 26 Nov 16 | SANTOS | A | 0 | 0 | WK12 -7 | |
| 03 Dec 16 | MILANO UNITED FC | H | 3 | 1 | KANGWA ; MNCUBE ; MADIKANE | WK13 -5 |
| 10 Dec 16 | FC CT | H | 1 | 1 | NGEBO | WK14 -6 |
| 17 Dec 16 | AMATUKS | A | 2 | 2 | MNCUBE ; NGEBO | WK15 -7 |
| 11 Feb 17 | JOMO COSMOS | H | 0 | 0 | WK16 -8 | |
| 15 Feb 17 | AMAZULU | A | 2 | 1 | MNCUBE ; KANGWA | WK17 -6 |
| 18 Feb 17 | ROYAL EAGLES | A | 2 | 3 | KANGWA ; MNCUBE | WK18 -9 |
| 25 Feb 17 | MAGESI FC | H | 3 | 2 | KANGWA ; MNCUBE ; MOFOKENG (O.G.) | WK19 -6 |
| 04 Mar 17 | THANDA ROYAL ZULU | A | 1 | 1 | MNCUBE | WK20 -7 |
| 18 Mar 17 | REAL KINGS FC | H | 2 | 1 | KANGWA ; HLUBI | WK21 -5 |
| 01 Apr 17 | MBOMBELA UN ITED | A | 1 | 1 | MNCUBE | WK22 -5 |
| 15 Apr 17 | SANTOS | H | 1 | 0 | NGEBO | WK23 -5 |
| 19 Apr 17 | MILANO UNITED FC | A | 0 | 2 | WK24 -6 | |
| 22 Apr 17 | WITBANK SPURS | H | 1 | 2 | BUTHELEZI | WK25 -7 |
| 29 Apr 17 | STELLENBOSCH FC | A | 0 | 4 | WK26 -8 | |
| 03 May 17 | AMATUKS | H | 0 | 0 | WK27 -8 | |
| 07 May 17 | FC CT | A | 0 | 1 | WK28 -8 | |
| 10 May 17 | CT ALL STARS | H | 1 | 0 | NGEBO | WK29 -8 |
| 14 May 17 | BLACK LEOPARDS | A | 3 | 0 | KANGWA ; MAQOKOLO ; NGEBO | WK30 -8 |
| 39 | 36 |
| HOME | ||||||||
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| MTHATHA BUCKS | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 28 |
| AWAY | ||||||||
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| MTHATHA BUCKS | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 20 | -5 | 15 |
| TOTAL | ||||||||
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| MTHATHA BUCKS | 30 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 39 | 36 | 3 | 43 |
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