Steve Blues

Steve Blues

Africa - Managing Editor

Biography: I studied journalism at Rhodes University and began my career writing features for a variety of entertainment magazines. I soon moved from print to digital and began focusing on sports when I joined the Perform Group in 2014. After covering such diverse sports stories as the Oscar Pistorius trial and aeroplanes full of cash heading to the Ghana men's national team at the Brazil World Cup, I began to focus exclusively on football and GOAL.  

My Football Story: I'm a lifelong Spurs fan who found himself a long way from Tottenham. I once dreamed of winning the Ballon d'Or as a goalkeeper but discovered I was better at stringing sentences together than I was at world-class saves. 

Areas of Expertise:

  • PSL (South African domestic league)
  • Tottenham Hotspur
  • African continental competitions at club and international level

Favourite football memory: The one thing I desperately wanted to achieve as a goalkeeper was to score a goal. In my second-last match before retiring, on a windy, freezing Joburg winter pitch I launched the ball long and one bounce off that rock hard pitch and it looped over their keeper and in! I am not ashamed to admit I celebrated more than if I'd scored a winner in the World Cup final.

Articles by Steve Blues
  1. Ouaddou explains outburst & asks Pirates to be more 'clever' when teams 'come and kick you'

    The Buccaneers coach was a visibly frustrated figure at the final whistle as tempers flared on the touchline. The Moroccan revealed that his reaction was driven by a desire to ensure player safety, specifically citing a late challenge on his goalkeeper during the match, making it clear he accepts physicality is part of the game but there is a limit that should not be crossed for the sake of the players' careers.

  1. AmaZulu vs Chiefs Preview: Kick-off time, TV channel & squad news

    GOAL gives you the details to follow the Premier Soccer League clash between Amakhosi in third and Usuthu in fourth in Betway Premiership clash that is the penultimate match for both sides this season. The Soweto club are already guaranteed to keep their place and qualify for CAF competition but face their old coach Arthur Zwane in the opposition dugout who is determined to show his side deserve to be amongst the Big Three.

  2. Throwback to when Ouaddou quit on live TV after Stellies defeat

    The year is 2024 and the former Morocco captain had started to forge a career in coaching at club level after cutting his teeth with a controversial spell at Algeria's national team. At the beginning of that season he landed one of the biggest club jobs in African football with Congolese giants AS Vita Club. But it did not last long as he sensationally quit a few months later in a televised post-match press conference here in South Africa.