Former Winners Park boss Dr, Morris Chokoe has detailed the challenges of running a National First Division club.
Winners Park played in the NFD, now called the Motsepe Foundation Championship, from the 2003/04 season until the 2009/10 campaign when they were eventually relegated.
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Along the way, they finished second in the Mvela Golden League and came within a stone's throw of gaining promotion to the top tier in 2007.
"With regards to running a football club, especially in the first division, it boils down to resources," says Dr. Morris Chokoe, who was the chairman of Winners Park.
"The First Division is run on the model of the PSL, which means certain protocol must be met.
"There are staff salaries to be paid and players are demanding more money than the grant being provided by the PSL, which must also cover the technical team.
"The second expenditure is travelling and accommodation because the type of transport that you must use and the places where you should stay must be of a certain standard.
"It would also help if the clubs had fans purchasing tickets and more games on television.
"If we had 5 000 paying fans at games, then it would help with alleviating the cost of hosting matches and paying security, ambulances and venue hire.
"In the First Division, half of the 500 fans attending games are people who ask for complimentary tickets.
"Then this means it is more expensive to play a home game than play away.
"Running a First Division club is never sustainable, which is why I still maintain all my respect for all the club owners.
"People don't know what these guys are going through in keeping their teams afloat.
"They must spend their own money to sustain their teams.
"For me, back then I had to still spend up to R3 million per annum on top of the PSL grant.
"I'm talking about 2010 and now I ask myself how the owners are managing now.
"For the people on the streets, they don't understand that there can never be anyone who gets into football with the intention of sabotaging his own team.
"Football is an addiction because it feeds off all other businesses that you have.
"I have seen a lot of powerful guys who came into the First Division, but they suffered so much because of football that you wouldn't be even able to recognise them now on the streets after their businesses crumbled.
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"I walked away from football and now enjoy the game sitting in the stands as a spectator.
"Had I stuck it out in football, I would have been a hobo by now," says Chokoe, who is a doctor by profession.