This season’s Premier Soccer League could see the tightest title race in years, with multiple clubs suitably equipped to challenge at the right end of the table. As PSL chairman Irvin Khoza grins: “There is no doubt that the Premiership has become a competitive league that is guaranteed to go to a photo finish season after season. In fact, in the last five years the Premiership was decided in the final matches played simultaneously under circumstances where duplicate trophies and helicopters were held on ‘stand by’.” With 10 million rand at stake for the winners this time around, that will not change in 2012-13.

Having won every PSL title between 2007-08 and 2009-10, SuperSport United dramatically fell from grace in 2010-11, finishing in seventh place – twenty points adrift of the top two. They recovered last season, however, finishing third, and have improved a solid squad that contains Zambian African…