The Tusker Post
Market7 Sep 2026
Eugene Ikutwa puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tusker, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
Tusker make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tusker have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tusker
Dennis Oalo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Sep 2026
Dennis Oalo the difference as Tusker beat Mathare United
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dennis Oalo. 1‑0 against Mathare United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Dennis Oalo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.31. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dennis Wanjala
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dancan Omala 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Thomas Teka
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Thomas Teka has come out of that comparison in the side, and Tusker have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ian Simiyu Jr.
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Player ratings Fantamady Diarra leaves them behind him
- Player ratings An afternoon Cliff Oruko will want back
- Market The Selasie Bakai story refuses to die