Jethren, great to have you for company for another week. Last week, you shared some unbelievable stories of your time at Bidvest Wits with the goalkeeping crew of Moeneeb Josephs and Denis Onyango. As promised, this week you will be speaking more about your time abroad, having played in Ireland. Talk to us about some of the craziest experiences you’ve had while there.
When I was playing abroad, I had a crazy moment and it’s something we are not used to in South Africa. There was a time when I was playing in Ireland and it was -2 degrees and the pitch was frozen. So, they were trying to make a plan for the game to carry on and they managed to get the pitch playable, except for the two goal areas. I was standing there with the other goalkeeper and we could feel that it was rock-hard. It looked like it was harder than cement and we said we couldn’t dive there and that the game should be called off. It was -2 degrees and I was freezing. Then my club said they would make a plan, and I wondered what they were going to do. I am telling you, five minutes later, they came out with a flamethrower. A flamethrower is that thing that shoots out flames. So, they used that to try to get rid of the rock-hard ice on the pitch. I was shocked that they came with a flamethrower to the stadium, just to get rid of the ice, ha, ha, ha.
Wow, sounds crazy. Do they randomly just keep flamethrowers at the stadium?
