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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>While Mamelodi Sundowns assistant coach Manqoba Mngqithi admits to benefiting from referees\u2019 mistakes, he says match officials are also human and likely to get it wrong now and then.<\/p>\n

During lighthearted banter between Mngqithi and Orlando Pirates counterpart Mandla Ncikazi ahead of the MTN8 final at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban (6pm), the latter brought up the issue of how Sundowns have been benefiting from referees\u2019 blunders. The biggest and costliest mistake by Luxolo Badi who failed to award Kaizer Chiefs a clear penalty in the second leg semifinal saw Sundowns proceed to the final.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Had Chiefs been awarded that penalty and scored it deep in referee\u2019s optional time, the game would have finished 2-2 (3-3 on aggregate) and Amakhosi would have proceeded to the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoach Mandla has said that we are benefiting now and who can\u2019t be thankful to benefits?\u201d Mngqithi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to be honest, I\u2019m not ashamed because people have benefited too much before. So it\u2019s our time.<\/p>\n

\u201cLento okuthiwa yisondo iyajika (the wheel turns), so when it turns in my favour I must appreciate it. Why must I complain?<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople, if we can say \u2018let\u2019s open the closet and see the trophies that people have won before\u2019 and maybe if there was a screening, I was going to show you because I\u2019ve got a lot of finals that were decided dubiously,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember others decided with a handball, I remember others decided with a penalty where Simba Marumo was hacked like this and there was nothing. But I don\u2019t want to go into too much detail in this space but I’ve seen a lot of dubious decisions in football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mngqithi also offered support for the match officials, saying unlike supporters who have the advantage of viewing an immediate video repeat, they only see incidents once and have to make a decision.<\/p>\n

A number of coaches in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) have called for the implementation of video assistant referee (VAR) which is being used by several other top leagues around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we must also accept that sometimes referees are human beings,\u201d Mngqithi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been cheated a lot. We understand and we accept that because sometimes in football referees don\u2019t have the benefit that we have, the slow motion, where we get to see the incident for the second time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to make the call immediately as and when it happens and that is not very easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many times have I thought the decision was supposed to be (in my favour) and when I do a video analysis I realise that I should have not had anything here and that\u2019s why the referee decided the Right way.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut sometimes when we benefit, because I must be honest, we benefited and thank God because he is the one who decides our lives. Maybe it was God\u2019s grace that the final should be played by Pirates and Sundowns so that people can witness tickets being bought in such a short time because people wanted to see a final that will excite them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must thank God for giving us the opportunity to have a final like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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