Royal AM owner Shauwn Mkhize
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Royal AM initially made heavy weather of getting into the DStv Premiership.
Once they did so through the acrimonious, yet perfectly fair, purchasing of Bloemfontein Celtic's status, they started off slowly with two losses.
When the team lost their first two league games, they didn't cause much of a ripple.
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