Former Santos and Lamontville Golden Arrows star Jainudeen Lakay is still not happy with the way his drug case was handled by the football authorities.
Lakay received a one-year ban, with six months suspended, and fined R55,000 after he appeared before a SAFA DC committee in 2005.
He blames Santos club owner Goolam Allie for "throwing him under the bus".
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"That time in my career, it was hard playing in the PSL. All the teams, including the likes of Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Jomo Cosmos, were after my signature, and Mr. Goolam Allie wanted me to feel that he was allowing me to play in the PSL so you can see I was a Bad Boy. What drugs did I do? Dagga, and today you can get it over the counter," Lakay tells KickOff.
"Mr. Allie knew about me and Wayne Roberts. We were both in the same boat. He was playing, but his money was paid into his sister's account by Mr. Allie.
"So, we rebelled all the time, yet we were doing the best out of what they had. We never played a match under the influence. But we used to go to training goofed.
"Funny thing, I was still training hard, so it didn't affect my way of training. But never did we go play under the influence because that's a different level of focus.
"Imagine, I was suspended for six months, but in my first game back, I scored and created goals, and we won 4-1.
"So, how bad was I? Mr. Allie didn't like the fact that he couldn't tell me what to do, like the other players.
"He was not my Creator, only a means sent by our Creator. So, I told him, 'So, you're letting the League fine me so that you don't pay me, my sign-on fee must now go for the fine?'
"He always told me that I'm a son and I must come home, but when I was home, he treated me as if he found me on the streets and made me who I was, and he couldn't pay an R250,000 sign-on fee, but he could accommodate foreigners in Canal Walk and houses for free.
"From the first time we spoke, he knew he could pay me what I asked, yet he lied about it from day one.
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"He wanted the League to make an example of me so that he could benefit. Remember, I was a gold medal winner. I was worth what I asked and he lied, I was not supposed to come, but I missed the family, I wanted to bring my people to the stadiums like it was from where I was at Lamontville Golden Arrows.
"That's the politics for you. People don't realize what is happening behind closed doors."