Times Of Swaziland: BUFFALOES STILL GRAZING!

BUFFALOES STILL GRAZING!
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BY Lwazi's Pandora's Box on 27/04/2021 07:57:00


My dearest readers ...
‘Still grazing’ is the autobiography of the dearly departed Bra Hugh
Masekela, written together with D. Michael Cheers, tracing the musical journey
of the South African trumpeter. It was first published in the US in 2004; it
shares rich detail of world-acclaimed jazz giant Hugh Masekela’s life, infused
with love and loss, sex and drugs, exile and revolution. In an interview on
eNCA, the prodigiously talented Masekela described the book and the album as
“a potpourri of the music of the African Diaspora.”
I could not help but think of this quote as I reflected on army side, Young
Buffaloes trailblazing exploits in the vanguard of Eswatini football these days
in particular in the enthralling 2020/2021 MTN league season, which is set to be
one of the most exciting in years. The army side, true to Masekela’s
enchanting book, which I have read more than 50 times like I have watched Sharon
Stone’s thigh-parting scene in the movie Basic Instinct 78 times, are still
grazing on the top green grass of the echelons of local football landscape.
Describes
The Animal Planet TV channel describes a buffalo as a bovine that makes use of
its tongue and wide incisor row to eat grass more quickly. Unless you have just
landed from Mars, you wouldn’t know that Young Buffaloes are eating up the
three points in the MTN league like a Pac-Man. 22 points out of a possible 24;
14 goals scored and a measly three conceded against Milling Hotspurs on December
19, 2020 in a 3-1 win, against Manzini Wanderers on April 5, in another 3-1 win
and against Malanti Chiefs on April 14, in a 2-1 win. The army side are in a
mean mood. They mean business. You have to go as far back as November 30, 2019
for the last time they lost a league game against Green Mamba, who went on to
clinch the league title for the second time in history. Buffaloes have now
chucked up 25 league games without a loss. Yes, it is still a way to go before
they can match up Mbabane Swallows glorious 51-league game unbeaten run but the
army side are now half-way to that magnificent record the Swallows of Mbabane
set from May 15, 2016 to September 30, 2018. At the rate the army side is going,
no one in his right senses can bet against them at least reaching the 30 game
unbeaten run.