 Frustrated Bay United chairman Sipho Pityana has lashed out at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality for failing to honour its promises and commitments to the club.
In a wide ranging interview currently featuring on the front page of the football365.com website, Pityana laments: "We are like refugees in our own community. We have a real prospect of being in the play-offs without a designated stadium. You would have thought the local council would be proud of the fact that Port Elizabeth needs a PSL team.
"You would expect the guys to support us but I'm not getting the sense that this is happening."
"Athletics, rugby and cricket all have their home grounds but not soccer.
"There are no facilities that the PSL can approve and then guys like Rian Oberholzer, the former CEO of SA rugby, are appointed to run the new stadium,” said Pityana. “The issue for me is not to take away facilities from athletics, rugby or cricket to give to soccer, but the municipality must do its work to provide each sport code with its own facilities. In many ways the minister of sport can only do so much.
"The local government made many commitments from marketing to fast tracking to games yet none of these have happened."
“NEW STADIUM MAY BE A WHITE ELEPHANT”
"The truth of the matter is we need a stadium in the community so we can build a culture of people coming to watch football,” Pityana said in the article. "I'm afraid the new stadium is going to be a liability, a white elephant to ratepayers, including myself.
"Look at what the stadium authorities tried to charge for the recent Volkswagen Challenge Trophy match between Moroka Swallows and German Bundesliga big guns VFL Wolfsburg.
"It was in the astronomical region of about R500 000 -- that's absolute rubbish for a single match. If Volkswagen, a world manufacturer, was not prepared to pay the price, what about Bay United?" | 
