Nedbank Cup: Celebration Video Haunts Kaizer Chiefs Following Orlando Pirates Loss

• Another season and another series of disappointments for the once great Kaizer Chiefs
• The Amakhosi were dumped out of the Nedbank Cup in the semifinals by Soweto enemies Orlando Pirates
• This was a few weeks after an infamous video showing Chiefs players and management celebrating after being drawn against the Buccaneers

The saying goes that be careful what you wish for.

Weeks ago, Kaizer Chiefs was drawn against Orlando Pirates in the semifinals of the 2023 Nedbank Cup.

A now infamous video showed players, management and fans at the Chatsworth Stadium in Durban celebrating this turn events. The Amakhosi had just defeated Royal AM 2-1 in an engrossing quarterfinal encounter and were in high spirits. They had reason to feel confident about facing the Buccaneers in the last four, for they had won five consecutive official Soweto derbies.

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As Murphy’s Law cruelly dictated, Chiefs was then defeated 2-1 on Saturday afternoon at Soccer City in Johannesburg. Kermit Erasmus opened the scoring for the ‘visitors’ in the 14th minute, before Yusuf Maart equalised in the 79th minute of a tense confrontation. With six minutes left of extra time, Sandile Mthethwa rose majestically to head the ball home from a Paseka Mako cross, sending his team into the final, where either Stellenbosch FC or Sekhukhune United will join them at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday, 27 May.

The internet does not forget. SuperSport shared on its Twitter account a juxtaposed video of Chiefs players’ original reaction to the draw, and both teams’ benches reactions to Mthethwa’s winner.

Salting the wounds, Mako said in the post-match interview that Sports Brief observed:

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“Sorry to say this [but] the time they drew us, they were happy and now I think we did it for the supporters and for the Orlando Pirates family.”

Chiefs’ trophy drought worsened by Marawa

Sports Brief went into the bowels of Twitter to dredge up another video to signify the events at Soccer City on Saturday.

Just over four years ago, the legendary broadcaster Robert Marawa was in an uncompromising mood about Chiefs’ concerning lack of trophies, with the Amakhosi having gone nearly four years without silverware at that point.

Summoning theatrics and overly dramatic narrative, Marawa contextualised this mediocrity in the only way he knows how to…