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Botswana: Gunners, Naughty Boys to Work As Team
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Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Chippa Legodimo
Lobatse giants Extension Gunners and newly promoted Naughty Boys have started a working relationship, which will see both clubs sharing ideas from time to time on how to improve standards, according to the two teams' officials.
Gunners' spokesperson Kitso Dlamini told Mmegi Sport that as a starting point the two teams will play a friendly game at the UB Stadium on July 26, whose proceeds will be donated to a charity organisation in Tlokweng.
Explaining the idea, Dlamini said: "It is the type of relationship aimed at lifting the standards of both teams. For instance in our team we have some experts in various fields like psychologists and they have some.
We have arranged for some psychologists to give both teams' players motivational talks before our friendly game," he said.
But more importantly Dlamini said that they decided to come up with such an idea of a cordial working relationship because they realised that the competitive atmosphere in football should not be allowed to develop into acute rivalry.
"Football should not be about bitter rivalry, the clubs can compete on the ground and still work together to grow the sport.
This is especially important in view of the fact that the Premier League will in the coming season be run by a board of governors composed of club chairpersons.
How do they work together in that board if they are total strangers or even enemies? We are trying to do away with the hostile atmosphere," he said.
As for the two teams, Dlamini said that the arrangement could help them grow their support base as well as solidify their community services.
"Through this we will play friendly games whenever we get the space in our schedules. Naughty Boys is a smaller team than us and this could help raise funds through such friendly games. But they are not the only beneficiary, we at Gunners believe they could have some ideas which can help us grow bigger," he said.
Naughty Boys' chairman Thulaganyo Segokgo said that it is important for club administrators to forge such working relationships because supporters would follow suit, hence curtailing the unnecessary attacks by opposing fans at games.
"It should not end with the clubs' leadership but the payers themselves should be made to understand that they only go into the field to compete but they can still have a cordial working relationship.
If players from different teams share ideas it could help them improve on their performance as well because the same person that you beat could have a better idea of how you could do even better," he said.
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Both clubs however denied the move was meant to facilitate a "smooth" transfer of payers between the two sides.
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