Veteran coach Walter Rautmann believes he has now been proven right in the assessment that he made about Morgan Mammila taking chances in coaching Chippa United.
Reports have indicated that Mammila has now made way for Kurt Lentjies with the club floating just six points away from the drop zone after one in the last 10 league games.
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Mammila had miraculously started with four wins in a row.
"I was right that this man is taking chances and I said this without having anything against him because I don't even know him as a coach," says Walter Rautmann whose initial comments led to Mammila hitting back at the veteran coach and labelling him a relegation coach.
"My original comment to you was based on that you cannot coach in a professional league without a coaching licence because it is in these courses that you learn about professional football coaching.
"You cannot be an ex-policeman and now want to coach a professional club without top coaching badges because it reflects badly on the PSL that this is allowed.
"This means anyone can walk into a PSL club and coach without any top qualification.
"I know it is not his fault that they allowed him to coach, but the PSL needs to have regulations on this.
"Why must a top ex-professional Benni McCarthy first go and do his badges and yet someone who never played the game can just coach a PSL team without badges?" says Rautmann.
In the meanwhile, Mammila has since acquired a CAF C licence.
"I have now been proven right that anyone can walk from the streets and win three or four games through luck but after some time you will be caught out and that is what happened now with this guy.
"I have nothing about him because I'm for the game getting better instead of being turned into a circus and after saying the truth, but he chose to attack me.
"He called me names, yet I took teams to cup finals, finished league runner-up, and won coach of the year and coach of the month awards.
"I believe he still needs to learn to become a top coach.
"I have done the most difficult jobs of saving teams with no money and a bunch of unhappy players from relegation which is harder than leading a well-resourced club like Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs.
"Saving teams never made me a bad coach," says Rautmann who played the game at the top level in Austria, South Africa, and USA.
The veteran gaffer also coached Moroka Swallows, AmaZulu, Bloemfontein Celtic, Rabali Blackpool, Dynamos, Real Rovers, PJ Stars, Garankuwa United, and worked in Eswatini.
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