The sixteen magnificent contingent of local football finest fabric returned to business, the excitement was reloaded in various arenas across the country.
The melancholy at the closure of the very first games, swung like a pendulum, polarized in sorrow and joy, dependent on which team one throws his allegiance on.
The euphoria of the 2025 TNM super league was given the quickest stimulant of excitement, Silver Strikers versus FCB Nyasa Big Bullets, whether by design or default, the fans had it fast-tracked!
At Bingu national stadium, where the stage was mounted, fans witnessed some exhilarating football worth their money.
Bullets drew first blood half an hour into the game, through their enterprising international Nigerian goal poacher, Babatunde Adepoju, who like an Eskimo in iceberg, serenely converted his chance, that came begging at the mercy of an empty net, as Silver’s goalie, was still grounded praying for his resurrection before Easter.
Given the mental intensity, the technical demands and shrewdness that came along with an outing of that epic magnitude, ‘Mponda my tick’, truly and deservedly Peter ‘Mpondamatiki’.
League debutants, Ekhaya FC, announced their arrival with a resolute intent by thumping top flight old-timers Mighty Tigers FC by two un-replied goals.
The cowboys, who undoubtedly will be a force to reckon with having assembled a team with quality, should be satisfied with the maximum points collected on first outing.
Elsewhere, Mafco made use of their home ground advantage in Dwangwa to see-off Chitipa United, whose survival in the league last edition, was by the slightest whisker of an almost dead mouse.
Mighty Wanderers were on rare orchestras against League returnees, Blue Eagles, who by far, still nurture one of the most experienced squad in the league.
The cops were given a bruising reception, mercilessly clobbered by the nomadic vigilantes by three goals to one.
Kamuzu Barracks, who travelled to unfamiliar territory in the North to test a newly structured Mzuzu City Hammers at their preferred comfort zone, defied some traditional odds to return home unscathed.
In a display that reminisces the glorious days of a once crowned Super league champions some eight years ago, Kamuzu Barracks scored through an early golden boot pace setter Zeliat Nkhoma and Francis Mchema to claim a 3-1 final score line.
Their fellow soldiers from the forests of Kaning’ina taught some bitter lessons to new comers in the league Songwe Boarder. A single slap in the face was fair enough.
Apparently a highly restructured on and off the field Creck Sporting Club were the biggest casualties of the week against a volatile Dedza Dynamos.
There was no mercy at Champions Stadium, there was no escape from the jaws from the jaguars of Dedza Mountains. A 4-1 loss will surely begin to ring early alarms at Creck.
In an encounter that Civil Service United dominated, it was, but the crocodiles of Karonga, who returned to their resting hovels with a giant catch, at the quickest feet of one loyal poacher, Allen Chihana.
The TNM Super league week opener ushered in eight casualties, and corollary eight victors, with a total of 19 goals scored. Satisfactorily without drawn matches!
