Mamelodi Sundowns With A Bigger Fish To Fry As Orlando Pirates Remain Optimistic

BEYOND the ordinary football banter of referring to Orlando Pirates as bridesmaids to perennial domestic Premiership winners Mamelodi Sundowns, lies the harsh truth - the title race is over.

With an 18-point gap between log leaders Sundowns and the second placed Pirates, realists can go as far as saying the defending champions might as well be given now their eighth straight league title.

Patriots might as well join that Gautrain on the basis that that would free up the Fifa Club World Cup-bound Brazilians time to focus on big matters, matters of national importance like hoisting the Rainbow Nations flag on other lands.

This weekend could very well seal it for those who are resistant to reality Pirates will host Sundowns in the return leg of the Premiership on a 3.30pm kickoff at FNB Stadium.

Those who love the banter would have been reminding Pirates all week of the 4-1 drubbing in the reverse fixture last month.