Passionate Gavin Hunt has no plans to call it quits despite SuperSport struggles

The decorated 60-year-old mentor has been coaching since 1998 when he held the role as head coach of Hellenic FC.

He has also worked for Black Leopards, Moroka Swallows, Bidvest Wits, Kaizer Chiefs, Chippa United, while he is back at SuperSport for the second time after his trophy-laden spell from 2007 to 2013 where he won three league titles and a Nedbank Cup.

Hunt also won three trophies with Wits, including the league, but has yet to win anything with Matsatsantsa since returning to the club in 2022.

SuperSport ended in seventh place last term and currently sit in 12th place on the Betway Premiership standings, having won just four of their 17 league games this season.

But Hunt explained that he felt offended by the idea he should walk away from the game just because his team is underperforming.

He told iDiski Times: "When I hear that, I get very offended because I mean...I must be careful what I say here.

"But you can put all the managers together and they've not won what I won. So now you are going to throw me away because of 10 bad games with the other 900 games having been good? You've got to be very careful. I look all around the world, even in business, and see how we are quick to throw away. They say, 'it's time to go; he must retire'.

"And then you bring someone in, and there's a little upsurge, but then what? You can't be throwing experience away. Maybe if I've lost the passion and the desire and love to come and be the first one here in the morning like I was today. I don't have to be here first, but if I lose that and the passion goes obviously that's another thing.

"But I still want to improve, and I still want to win."

SuperSport are unbeaten in their last two games, drawing 1-1 with an in-form Sekhukhune United in the Premiership and beating Cape Town Spurs 2-1 in the last 16 of the Nedbank Cup.

They are next in action away to Kaizer Chiefs at the FNB Stadium on Tuesday