THE Premier Soccer League was caught offside once again on Wednesday when billboards of a rival broadcasting company were still flying at Luveve Stadium during a Castle Lager encounter between How Mine and Triangle United.

Straight after the Ascot debacle, the PSL marketing team somehow suffered from selective amnesia and forgot to remove banners for KweseTV who had the broadcasting rights to the COSAFA Women Championship that ended on Sunday. Supersport has broadcasting rights for the local game.

The KweseTV billboard were only removed after the media raised the issue with the How Mine chairman Mark Andrew who then ordered the grounds men  at the stadium to remove the banners when the match was already five minutes old.

Away from the seemingly dereliction of duty by the PSL staffers, it was How Mine who started the match eager to find an early opener with some intelligent build ups engineered mainly by Tsepo Ranthokoane from the right back, Timothy January and Milton Ncube.

It was therefore not a surprise when they surged ahead in the 24thminute through Peter Rio Moyo’s shot from inside the box after one of those brilliant exchange of passes but to their credit, the visitors kept their shape with skipper Lameck Nhamo a handful to the How Mine defence.

Nhamo was to level matters in the 27th minute with a stinger after his How Mine counterpart Makundika Sakala failed to clear a loose ball on the penalty box arc and Nhamo reacted quickly to release a stinger that gave Donovan Bernard no chance. Bernard, who had seen little action for the better part of the season as Munyaradzi Diya was preferred, was left standing at akimbo, he never dived.

In the second half How Mine continued probing forward and in one of their raids, Moyo riffled a volley inside the box after a miscue by forward Kuda Musharu.
“It's good to have a midfielder who can score a brace for you and even though he was really not in the game he managed to give us those important goals,” said How Mine coach Kelvin Kaindu of Moyo after the match.

In a bid to put the match to bed the gold miner dropped Ncube into defence and also to contain the stocky Nhamo, a move which paid dividends.

“We knew that it was going to be a difficult game, I think we were exhausted from the Chibuku Super Cup game, Bantu Rovers were so resistant. We haven’t done so well in the second half, managing to pick up points from Bantu Rovers only while the rest of the points have come from draws but for us to bounce back with a victory today it’s a plus for us. We managed to get easy goals but I am a bit worried how we defended and how we conceded that goal,” said Kaindu.

Triangle United coach Taurai Mangwiro bemoaned that poor away form which has been the case for the better part of the season this year.

“Our woes continue away from home, I thought we had rectified them but the two goals that we conceded we could have avoided them. We don’t want to despair we are left with eight games and if we can conjure something especially away from home then the better for us,” said Mangwiro who side finished with 10 men after Derwin Phiri was shown a second yellow card by on top of the situation Hwange referee  Makha Magare.