AFTER months sitting on the bench for the chubby Benni McCarthy, Bongani Ndulula seems to have decided if you can't beat them, join them. Our spies in Melville tell us it looked like the craving had spoken when the hungry striker and a friend were spotted moering a goalkeeper (a Nandos full chicken) in a parking lot outside the fast-food outlet this week. The boys couldn't even wait to get home, choosing to wolf down the chicken from the boot of Ndulula's snazzy white Audi A3. As they say in the classics, you can take the laaitie out of Aliwal North ...

TSAMAYA'S agents also saw Moeneeb Josephs shopping for golf equipment in Fourways. But he had his wires crossed with the shop assistants who could not make sense of what "Slim Kat" was saying. We reckon Josephs' job is to catch balls, not hit them.

YOU'VE got to love the mutual admiration society at the top of the international game. We read with interest that Human Settlements Minister, Tokyo Sexwale, has just been appointed to the Fifa media committee. Tsamaya reasonably asks: when did Sexwale last have an irate sports editor on the phone screaming at him? When did he last file a crisp 600 words on deadline? And what's the difference between a colour piece and a back-page lead, Tokyo?