Own goal: Safa president Danny Jordaan made what he called a ‘payment’ to football development. He is now charged with fraud between 2014 and 2018. Photo: Alex Grimm/Getty Images
One hot afternoon in January 1996, I walked around the perimeter of Soccer City with Danny Jordaan. We were joined by the journalist Ian Hawkey, later to become a close friend, and the talk was amiable. Jordaan was a prodigiously amiable man.
He still is an amiable man, so amiable that if there is a…