Who the hell runs South African football?!

I've come to the conclusion that Carlos Alberto Parreira probably runs the South African national team. He's not the coach, he's not an administrator, but he still gets paid the big bucks to make the decisions.

Consider his actions since he was appointed as the South African national coach (briefly)...

R1.8m a month, coached for a couple of months, appointed his team (including communicators) as part of a long term strategy to see us go to the World Cup.

A couple of months into the job we look like we're making some (VERY) marginal progress and suddenly his wife falls ill. Instead of taking some kind of leave of absence, he calls a press conference and announces his resignation.

Tricky that...

But curiously he has decided who the next South African coach is going to be ... Its Joel Santana his mate from Brazil.

Santana makes no real impact on the side, we lose a couple of games we should have won and then he goes on holiday back to Brazil. Now this week Bafana Bafana are taking on Australia with hardly any time together.

Weird...

Even weirder is that Parreira is suddenly being quoted by South African papers as saying he has become available again as a special consultant ....

This whole soccer lark is ridiculous and you can't wonder why our players look clueless on the field. Because their coaching staff are clueless about what they want and aren't exactly sending out a message of confidence to players, spectators and administrators.

This whole Parreira thing is turning into an expensive mistake...