Mamelodi Sundowns’ coach Rhulani Mokwena had lots of admiration for Kaizer Chiefs’ Cavin Johnson, but that will fall away in the 90 minutes when they square off against each other at FNB Stadium.
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Cavin Johnson will get to walk in the shoes of Victor Frankenstein for 90 minutes when he faces the “monster” he helped create in Kaizer Chiefs’ battle with Mamelodi Sundowns at FNB Stadium on Thursday night.
But unlike Frankenstein – the fictional character in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, who created a monster that would go on to kill his best friend and wife – the creature that Johnson helped create isn’t ugly.
In fact, that creature, Rhulani Mokwena, is a prophet of beautiful football – refusing to abandon that principle and even preaching it in the CAF Champions League where practitioners of that faith tend not to fair well.
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