The Tusker Post
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tusker
Siyanda Ndlovu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match17 Oct 2026
Siyanda Ndlovu’s goal not enough for Tusker
Siyanda Ndlovu scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Kakamega Homeboyz, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Siyanda Ndlovu
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Victor Mbaoma gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Abud Omar is slowing down
At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Siyanda Ndlovu
Marked 8.40 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ronny Otieno was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Patrick Miheso: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Thomas Teka falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- The dugout John Otieno left out for tactical reasons at Tusker
- Player ratings The afternoon ran through Victor Mbaoma
- The dugout Telena Ochieng knocks on the manager’s door