Benni McCarthy might have been playing mind games or was being humble but if so, he put up a pretty convincing act of appearing shaken at drawing "the shark"‚ Gavin Hunt, and his Bidvest Wits‚ again — this time in the Nedbank Cup. The rookie Premier Soccer League (PSL) coach of Cape Town City’s first season started like a Camp’s Bay mansion on fire‚ the club reaching the MTN8 final at the expense of defending league champions Wits. City beat Wits in both legs of their semifinal and two weeks before, beat the Clever Boys in the Absa Premiership at Bidvest Stadium in Johannesburg. Three victories in 25 days‚ two away and one home‚ by the team coached by the "student" against Hunt — the four-time league-winning coach who gave McCarthy his playing debut at Seven Stars in 1995 — did not sit well with the "master". Especially not since those results played a role in Wits’ astonishing self-implosion in 2017-18‚ from which they are only just showing signs of recovering even though they rema...
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