MARK GLEESON has been writing and broadcasting about football in South Africa, and the wider continent, for the last four decades. He has worked for all the major newspaper groups, launched the magazine Kick Off and did the television commentary for South Africa's first World Cup appearance in 1998. He is also a long-standing correspondent on African football for various international publications and agencies and has worked at eight World Cup and fourteen Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. Benni and Mark worked closely together in the interviews, research and writing of this definitive biography.