The Bandari Chronicle
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nyamawi Beja scores twice — 9.12
Two goals and a mark of 9.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nyamawi Beja settles it late for Bandari
The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Nyamawi Beja decided nobody was going anywhere. Bidco United had no time left to answer.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Hassan Abdallah beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Amza Moubarack in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bandari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nyamawi Beja sends Bandari past Bidco United
It finished 3‑2, and it was Nyamawi Beja’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bandari.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Hassan Abdallah 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Bandari keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
A satisfied Duncan Mainge
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑2, Duncan Mainge could afford to be generous.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nyamawi Beja named player of the week
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Nyamawi Beja has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Faraj Ominde
- The dugout When it matters, David Sakwa plays
- The dugout No place in the plan for Geoffrey Ojunga