The Mathare United Sentinel
Squad14 Sep 2026
3 goals for Musa Masika
The match ball belongs to Musa Masika, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught John Makwatta yet — 8.93
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.93 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match12 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Mathare United
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match12 Sep 2026
Mathare United get the job done against Shabana
A 4‑3 win over Shabana, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Musa Masika was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.99. 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
7 goals as Mathare United and Shabana go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Mathare United and Shabana, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Mathare United
Erick Kipkirui 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Victor Omune
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Victor Omune, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Mathare United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Douglas Mokaya was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout Victor Mainge: “That is the standard”
- Squad The weekend belonged to Musa Masika
- The dugout Peter Oudu has become a man the manager trusts