Not even Birds’ minority shareholders can deny the passion of Leon Prins
LEON Prins once showed up unannounced at the Business Day offices in Rosebank and boy, was he livid.He took strong exception to a scathing column I wrote about his beloved Moroka Swallows and he was so incensed he decided to give me a piece of his mind in person.After signing in at reception without my knowledge, I’m told he stormed towards our floor like an enraged bull charging at a matador’s red cape.He scanned the newsroom for this cheeky man from the rolling hills of Tsomo Mission and when he finally saw me, he walked towards my desk and then, strangely enough, he just stood behind me and burned holes on the back of my head without uttering a word.Lord knows how long he stood there and it wasn’t until the chief sub-editor, Tlou Legodi, walked up to me and whispered in my ear: "Don’t look now but Leon Prins is standing behind you and he’s either going to kiss you or kick the living crap out of you. And my money is on the latter…"I took one look at the fuming face and decided to ...
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