Staff Reporter | Inspired by patron and area Member of Parliament Jonathan Moyo, Tsholotsho football club fought to the last minute in their match against Harare City to secure another run in the country’s premier soccer league.
Going into the last matches of the season Iziqholo zeZhwane as the club is affectionately called, was just a point above fellow struggles Buffaloes. The set up left them needing nothing less than a win against the capital city council team to guarantee a stay in the top flight league.
Anything less than a win would leave the fate of the country’s only rural based premier league team dependent on the outcome of the Dynamos and Buffaloes match Mutare.
Twenty four minutes into their match Tsholotsho took the lead which gave them a glimmer of hope. The slender lead kept the huge crowd of predominantly Highlanders fans backing Tsholotsho at the edge of their seats.
Disaster struck when with just two minutes of play left, Harare City scored an equalising goal. Anxious moments struck the City of Bulawayo for the ensuing five minutes as everyone waited to end of the Dynamos and Buffaloes match. Never in the football history of Bulawayo has a Dynamos goal been celebrated as the news came through that Dynamos had scored in Mutare.
With buffaloes losing the “Stubborn Boys” of Tsholotsho survived relegation by the skin of their teeth.