Finally, the Safa-Buffalo City SAB League 2014-15 champions have been revealed and they are... Future Tigers!
According to a log released late yesterday, Tigers finished with 70 points from 30 matches while their arch-rivals, Parkside Sporting, closed the campaign on 67 points from the same number of games.
But Tigers should not celebrate just yet as Sporting chairman, Graham Lottering, maintains that “the championship still hangs in the balance because I am pursuing other avenues in relation to the DC cases that came out with a verdict against us”.
Sporting had three points deducted from them this week after losing a protest lodged against them pertaining to their encounter with Rising Stars which they won but had to forfeit the three points as they were found guilty of fielding a suspended player.
Continued Lottering: “There is something that is called an appeal and arbitration in football and I will exhaust all those options. So things are not as you see them in the latest log table.”
Lottering vowed that he will not go down without a fight and signs of his anxiety started showing on Wednesday when he lodged a complaint to the office of the Safa-BC director of competitions Abel Iglesias.
In the complaint, Lottering is questioning the regional body’s inconsistency in the application of the rules when it comes to disputes.
They compare the difference in the handling of their match against Tigers last Sunday which was abandoned due to load-shedding when Sporting were 1-0 up and that between King Spurs and Tigers some months ago which was stopped prematurely due to an alleged assault of an assistant referee.
In the Spurs and Tigers game, the latter who was leading at the time of the premature stoppage was awarded three points.
Iglesias dismissed the complaint yesterday saying “there are no grounds for a complaint pertaining to the match of 21st June 2015”.
He, however, did not touch on the Spurs versus Tigers game which Sporting used as comparison.
Safa provincial secretary, Isaac Klaas has indicated that the provincial playoffs in Matatiele next weekend will be going ahead as planned “unless there is an interdict”.
Tigers chairman Vukile Mlanjana was not available at the time of writing yesterday.
Coupled with what has been a much-awaited log table yesterday was three fixtures still scheduled for relegation-bound Amania Sporting who have seven points from 27 games.
Amania, currently rock bottom on the logstanding, will not move an inch even if they win all three games and collect nine points because second from bottom is Mighty Taliban who are 18 points ahead of Amania.
Taliban themselves have already been relegated.
Mdantsane-based Relatives FC, in their first season in the SAB Regional League, finished third with 62 points.
Tigers pounce on title
According to a log released late yesterday, Tigers finished with 70 points from 30 matches while their arch-rivals, Parkside Sporting, closed the campaign on 67 points from the same number of games.
But Tigers should not celebrate just yet as Sporting chairman, Graham Lottering, maintains that “the championship still hangs in the balance because I am pursuing other avenues in relation to the DC cases that came out with a verdict against us”.
Sporting had three points deducted from them this week after losing a protest lodged against them pertaining to their encounter with Rising Stars which they won but had to forfeit the three points as they were found guilty of fielding a suspended player.
Continued Lottering: “There is something that is called an appeal and arbitration in football and I will exhaust all those options. So things are not as you see them in the latest log table.”
Lottering vowed that he will not go down without a fight and signs of his anxiety started showing on Wednesday when he lodged a complaint to the office of the Safa-BC director of competitions Abel Iglesias.
In the complaint, Lottering is questioning the regional body’s inconsistency in the application of the rules when it comes to disputes.
They compare the difference in the handling of their match against Tigers last Sunday which was abandoned due to load-shedding when Sporting were 1-0 up and that between King Spurs and Tigers some months ago which was stopped prematurely due to an alleged assault of an assistant referee.
In the Spurs and Tigers game, the latter who was leading at the time of the premature stoppage was awarded three points.
Iglesias dismissed the complaint yesterday saying “there are no grounds for a complaint pertaining to the match of 21st June 2015”.
He, however, did not touch on the Spurs versus Tigers game which Sporting used as comparison.
Safa provincial secretary, Isaac Klaas has indicated that the provincial playoffs in Matatiele next weekend will be going ahead as planned “unless there is an interdict”.
Tigers chairman Vukile Mlanjana was not available at the time of writing yesterday.
Coupled with what has been a much-awaited log table yesterday was three fixtures still scheduled for relegation-bound Amania Sporting who have seven points from 27 games.
Amania, currently rock bottom on the logstanding, will not move an inch even if they win all three games and collect nine points because second from bottom is Mighty Taliban who are 18 points ahead of Amania.
Taliban themselves have already been relegated.
Mdantsane-based Relatives FC, in their first season in the SAB Regional League, finished third with 62 points.
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