Another punch in the face for bleeding Chiefs

Kaizer Chiefs will again have to deal with reminders about their decay and trophy-barren spell despite being absent on the fixture list on Tuesday evening.

Obviously with the exception of Cape Town Spurs, Mamelodi Sundowns is the only club fixtured to play on Tuesday as they seek to play catch-up on their heavy schedule that has left them with up to four games in hand over some teams and still enjoying a 10-point cushion at the top.

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Tuesday is top versus bottom with Sundowns favoured to prevail over the Capetonians, who haven’t won in their last four league games.

Should the Brazilians win at Athlone Stadium, the value of those three points will have ripple effects that will suck in Chiefs.

Three points will move Rulani Mokwena’s men up to 52 points.

This will end the mathematical chances that had kept the official count of Chiefs’ ninth year without a trophy on 'pending' status.

In the unlikely event that Amakhosi win all their seven remaining games, they will only end up on 51 points and cannot win the league, the only trophy left to play for this season for them.

Sundowns could get to 52 on Tuesday night with another 10 league games to play.

What will pain Chiefs even further is that Sundowns have another three trophies to play for this season, while their season is already over on the silverware front.

The Brazilians have won 16 trophies since Chiefs last tasted one and now sit on 25 titles throughout the PSL era years, with the Glamour Boys stuck on 20.

Just to prove how long Chiefs have waited for silverware, Itumeleng Khune is now the only surviving member of that squad that won the league in May 2015 still at the club, with time having wiped out all other players.