Kaizer Chiefs struggling to win trophies has not only become the club's issue but a South African problem, with fan violence at the stadiums perhaps a key factor.
Former Amakhosi coach Steve Komphela is the only coach to stay longer than two years at the club since they won trophies under Stuart Baxter in his first spell between 2012 and 2015.
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The Glamour Boys were rebuilding the team under Komphela from 2015, who showed promise, with a change in style of play, playing possession football, a switch from Baxter's transition football.
The former Free State Stars tactician almost had a dream start, as he reached two cup finals in his first season at Chiefs and lost both of them.
Towards the end of his third season in April 2018, Amakhosi supporters lost patience for not winning trophies after they were knocked out of the Nedbank Cup semi-finals by Ea Lla Koto and forced Komphela to resign after violent scenes at Moses Mabhida Stadium.
The Glamour Boys chairman Dr Kaizer Motaung, says fan violence culture, which recently resulted in them parting ways with Molefi Ntseki, is not only a Chiefs issue, as former Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Pitso Mosimane was nearly forced out of the Brazilians by unruly fans in the early stages of his tenure at Chloorkop.
Motaung conceded that Masandawana are now winning because they stuck with Mosimane through those challenges, which shows the fine line between being successful with coaches and not being successful.
"That's one of the reasons we're not challenging Sundowns. But before this, if you recall Sundowns before they started winning, Pitso was on the verge of being sacked," Motaung said on SportsLive with BBK.
"He was leaving the stadium under police escort, so it didn't just happen because Pitso was there. They stuck with him but you must also understand that there is something creeping into our game now which is hooliganism in football.
"Violence which is not warranted, so you're forced sometimes to be able to take decisions to get rid of coaches, which we have obviously, which is uncharacteristic of Chiefs to be changing so many coaches. But because of the pressure and unruliness, lack of understanding from the man on the stand, it has forced us to take the steps we took because at the end of the day we had to protect their (the coaches) lives," he added.
Ntseki, like Mosimane after joining the Brazilians in 2012, joined Amakhosi after leaving the post as a Bafana Bafana head coach, although the former junior national team coach did not have experience of being the head coach of a PSL team and was initially recruited as a Head of Technical and Youth Development at Chiefs.
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