Cape Town City chairman John Comitis is set to appear before the Premier Soccer League Disciplinary Committee (PSL DC) on Friday to explain his media remarks.
The PSL DC has charged Comitis, who serves on the PSL executive committee, with bringing the league into disrepute with his comments after arbitration went in Kaizer Chiefs’ way.
SA Football Association arbitrator Nazeer Cassim SC ruled that the games, which Chiefs missed due to a massive Covid-19 outbreak in the club, should be replayed, and the Amakhosi received dates for their rescheduled matches against Golden Arrows as well as Cape Town City.
They will play Golden Arrows on Wednesday, 27 April, and CT City on 30 April at FNB Stadium, a decision by the league which Comitis is against. “Here we have a club (Chiefs) not arriving at a match, and we allow this thing to get to this point because we didn’t act, and the prosecution didn’t act,” said an aggrieved Comitis.
PSL prosecutor Zola Majavu confirmed that Comitis acknowledged that the remarks were true and accurate.
“The second confirmation is that Mr John Comitis will appear before the DC this coming Friday on 29 April to answer charges of bringing the league into disrepute based on some media utterances attributable to him, which he subsequently confirmed as having been true and accurate,” said Majavu.
“Once these matters have been finalised, I will provide feedback on the decision of the PSL DC itself.”
Meanwhile, the PSL prosecutor also updated the Chiefs players who were improperly registered for the DStv Premiership, Aiden McCarthy and Mduduzi Shabalala were not correctly registered by the club.
Majavu announced that the case had been postponed to next month for final arguments as the Soweto giants appeared before the PSL DC.
“Kaizer Chiefs appeared before the DC to answer to charges of fielding two ineligible players who were originally registered for the Diski Challenge. However, they were used in a fixture between themselves and Sekhukhune,” declared Majavu.
“The case has been postponed to the 13th of May for final arguments. On that day, on the direction of the panel, the matter must be finalised.
“What would be outstanding would be a judgement that would be reserved, mindful of the fact that the season is drawing to an end.”
