Marawa and Collins in twitter rant over Mashaba
South Africans are really passionate about their sport, even our soccer anaylsits, journalists and commentators live and breathe it.
IMAGE: AFP.
So, it’s quite understandable that there will be a lot of debate around the sport. Recently national team Bafana Bafana, came back from Afcon 2015 defeated, and as expected, national team coach Shakes Mashaba was expected to answer about the decisions he made.
He happened to appear on the popular sports show 083 Sports@6 hosted by Robert Marawa, fans were not impressed with the answers he gave, it seemed he was deliberately avoiding all the questions people wanted answered.
This didn’t sit well with the fans and columnist and blogger Neal Collins. Neal expressed his displeasure and what started out as a comment spiralled into a twitter brawl involving Robert Marawa, Neal Collins, Bareng-Batho Kortjaas and what seemed to be the whole sports journalist fraternity!
Things quickly descended to matters of race and appointments to meet each other man to man! What happened to playing nicely?
We guess the studs were up on this one!
Let’s see how the fight escalated:
In summary @vdFachie: I said @BBKUnplugged99 and @robertmarawa soft on #shakes; Rob accused me of taking drugs. Spot the mistake. Lawyers.
— Neal Collins (@nealcol) February 3, 2015
Have #something to #say to me @nealcol? Name place and time. Let's do it #face2face, #man2man. Public place, preferably open space. Okay?
— BBK (@BBKUnplugged99) February 3, 2015
Hey Avboob, you can apologise in the morning. I understand how much #shakes interview hurt your rep. @robertmarawa. Or we can do this at 6pm
— Neal Collins (@nealcol) February 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/nealcol/status/562410618003943424
Perhaps @robertmarawa we can talk about the night you sent me for #sabc screen test, saying I had the job. Why'd the fat bloke send me away?
— Neal Collins (@nealcol) February 3, 2015
Tell us your background @robertmarawa, where did you get the posh voice and empty head? The penchant for bland platitudes?
— Neal Collins (@nealcol) February 3, 2015
Robert Marawa has since deleted his tweets to Neal. All we want to know is, how did these respected men let it get this far?
