In this edition of The Secret Footballer, a former Kaizer Chiefs player reveals how one of the club's top players once gave him bad treatment when he signed for the club.
This week's Secret Footballer reveals how players go to the extent of breaking each other's legs behind closed doors just to earn a place in the starting line-up.
"Not everyone in your new club will give you a warm welcome; people are afraid you might take their positions and eventually cost them their jobs; that's normal in football," He says.
READ | 'I signed with two PSL clubs at the same time'
"I'm talking about something that happened to me at Kaizer Chiefs. I could sense the vibe was not good. From the onset things were awkward between me and the player who played in my position. We didn't even greet each other.
"But I soldiered on and carried on with my job; I was not there to nurse anyone's feelings; I was there to do my job.
"It was worse at training because we even fought, we were all fighting for a place in the team that was going to camp.
"We kicked the hell out of each other; remember, each player has his friends in the team, so they would advise you to kick the player you were competing with for a position.
"And one of us would do it recklessly and we would end up punching each other. That's how players get injured at training. Players are kicking their teammates for personal gain.
"But that's normal in football, it's happening at all the clubs, Jabu Pule, Patrick Mbuthu, Isaac Mabotsa, Lucky Maselesele, so the youngsters had their group. And Mbuthu was their leader.
"They listened to whatever he said [laughs].
"There was another group of Thabo Mooki, Doctor Khumalo, and Brian Baloyi formed another group.
"In football, you are only a team on matchdays; after a match, everyone goes their separate ways.
"But at Chiefs, as a spectator, you wouldn't notice that during a match because from each group, they would field only two players, so it was impossible not to pass the ball to other people.
"In our lineups, we had Lifa Gqosha and Martin Zwane, who were friends. Gary Goldstone and Mohammed Ouseb they were friends.
"Then, in the middle, it would be Thabo Mooki and Doctor Khumalo, and then Jabu Pule and Patrick Mbuthu. We were fielded in pairs to avoid not passing to each other.
"A lot is happening behind the scenes in football. Hence, you sometimes see a player scoring a goal and his teammates don't join him in his goal celebration.
"Sometimes you pass the ball to your teammate not willingly because if you don't pass him, the supporters will pull you out. They will sub you [laughs]."