The local football acres have been set ablaze with an already thrilling Airtel Top 8 Cup, whose exploits at quarterfinal stages, have been electric this far.
What is football if it doesn’t bring surprises? Where is the mantra of the finest eight, if the rhythm and genre are just too flat?
The unpredictability nature of football, probably makes it the most highly watched game in the world, among others.
Airtel Top 8 is striking within those rightful codes. Fans have been at the edge of their seats, the fan’s local sweaty ears have been deformed by pinning their solar powered Chinese made FM radio, closest to their natural hearing aids.
When football superintendents at Mpira House announced the pairing of teams in the glamorous Airtel Top 8 Cup, soccer pundits had their own predictions.
The pendulum of success was still swinging among the traditional preferences to make it into the next grade. On a piece of paper and over amplified microphones in news rooms, Mighty Wanderers, FCB Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers are always decorated as favourites.
They ought to be, anyway. These are teams that have stable financial backing, they have rare monetary abilities and prowess, comparatively, to acquire any star players they may so desire.
In any local football competition their names are recited as headliners. Creck Sporting Club may be joined such luxury, they too bask in glory of adequate resources.
The 2025 Airtel Cup Edition brought football to life with nerve-biting fixtures, FCB Nyasa Big Bullets vs. Creck Sporting Club, Mighty Wanderers vs. Karonga United, Mzuzu City Hammers vs. Civil Service United and Silver Strikers vs. Moyale Barracks.
Mighty Wanderers faithful smiled from ear to ear at Kamuzu Stadium when Blessings Mwalilimo Karonga’s former star lifted their spirits in punishing former employers. He did not celebrate, he raised his arms up like a soothsayer, as if prophesying the next result of the next encounter.
The rest is stale news, on return Karonga United turned the tables at their backyard courtesy of one back-stabber Alfred Chizinga, who defied the laws of thunder by striking twice on a single spot.
Creck Sporting FC left stage with heads held up higher having put up a spirited performance against giants Nyasa Big Bullets, holding the red army to a barren draw in the first leg, before reluctantly giving by a single fist on return at Nankhaka Stadium.
In other encounters, Silver Strikers took a slender lead in the first leg against a more organised Moyale Barracks. They are not safe yet, despite they will be meeting a side in mourning, as the Lions of Kaning’ina lost their first choice goal minder, simeone Harawa.
Mzuzu City Hammers and Civo Service United have unfinished business on each other after a goalless first leg in Mzuzu.
Mighty Wanderers and Creck Sporting have all shaken the dust of Airtel Top 8 2025 edition, there will be two more suitors who will join them. Who will that be? Your guess might be wrong as mine.
