Safe hands

For all of the last six years the Orlando Pirates goalkeeping gloves have been passed around to a number of players, with none of the stability in the position that other ‘keepers such as Itumeleng Khune at Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns’ Denis Onyango have brought.

Through Felipe Ovono, Brighton Mhlongo, Jackson Mabokgwane, Joris Delle, Siyabonga Mpontshane, Emmanuel Daniel and even Wayne Sandilands, none has been able to provide the answer that Pirates needed between the posts.

But in signing Richard Ofori this season they seem to have finally found a man who can stand tall even amongst Khune and Onyango.

Since to err is human, Ofori has already had a high-profile blunder, just like all the keepers who have kept goals at Pirates in the last decade, but what they hope he will bring is consistency.

That Pirates found reason to spend as much as they did in luring away from Maritzburg where he had outgrown the platform offered by the KwaZulu-Natal side meant they weren’t satisfied with what they had and