Motsepe will have to show leadership to find a solution to a problem which I think cannot be solved by legal means alone, an executive committee member told me on Sunday after the committee meeting.
Mathys Tel has been the standout performer, causing problems all evening with his directness and trickery. It was Tel who provided the breakthrough. Drifting in from the right, the Frenchman picked out Kolo Muani with a pinpoint delivery into the box, and the striker rose to nod firmly into the bottom-left corner.
Long known for its Carnival atmosphere, the RheinEnergieStadion was in real party mood after Ragnar Ache put the hosts ahead on the half-hour mark. But Bayern were in no mood for that, as Luis Díaz and Harry Kane flipped the game on its head in the space of seven minutes. Kane and Michael Olise then added gloss to the scoreline in the second half. Looking back now, that defeat was the start of a change for Köln.
Without a permanent manager and languishing in eighth place in the Scottish Premiership, they are 11 points off the top six never mind the European places. The club have churned through a manager, a sporting director, and plenty of players since the summer, fielding four debutants in defeat by Motherwell on Sunday. They face the same opposition in Wednesday's re-arranged Scottish Cup last-16 tie which now has the feel of a season-defining game.
Palace started brightly and should have taken the lead inside the first ten minutes. Benoit Badiashile was caught in possession, allowing Jean-Philippe Mateta to run through on goal, but Robert Sanchez produced a strong save to bail out his defence. That miss proved costly. Chelsea gradually settled into the contest and found the breakthrough in the 34th minute through Estevao. Jaydee Canvot's underhit back pass invited pressure, and the 18-year-old raced clear from halfway before finishing confidently past Dean Henderson.
Founded in 1958 by the late Moulay El Hassan II, the former king of Morocco, they are the club of the nation's military. This relationship has allowed the women's team to become trailblazers in Africa. Not constrained by the same financial incentives faced by private clubs, AS FAR, which came into being in 2001 and was the country's first professional outfit, has invested in its women's team like no other in Africa over the past decade.
And that is the last kick of the match. One of the greatest FA Cup giantkillings has happened here in the sunshine at the Moss Rose. The holders, Crystal Palace, have been knocked out. What a turnaround of fortunes for Crystal Palace: winners at Wembley in May, losers in Macclesfield in January. John Murray, speaking on BBC radio, provided the epitaph to Palace's dismal, desperate defeat by a mid-table team from the National League North.
With what seemed like an interminable January almost done and dusted, the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League are also at a close. Once again, we've seen stadiums across the continent transformed into cacophonous cauldrons of noise and motion as legions of fans organized and performed enormous tifos to help ramp up the prematch atmosphere.
After Marseille's 1-0 win over the European champions in September their first at the Velodrome in the league in 14 years the word finally was the word scrawled across the front page of local paper La Provence. That victory brought relief, but also hope and optimism: the Empire could be toppled. But it struck back on Sunday night. Rubbish, read the front page of La Provence on Monday.
