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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to KCB's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KCB has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kevin Omondi 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 KCB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alassane Coulibaly 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kevin Omondi 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kevin Omondi dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Gor Mahia will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put KCB out
Out, 1‑1 to Kariobangi Sharks, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Gomolemo Kekana at 20 — 8.18
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gomolemo Kekana did not need any: 8.18, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fortune Omoto hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KCB can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
64 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KCB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
Tyron Kariuki has left for Tusker in a $51.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
KCB march on in the cup
Posta Rangers are out and KCB go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match19 Aug 2026
At 2 goals adrift this was a formality, and the formality lasted right up until it did not. KCB found something the first half had given no notice of, and Posta Rangers could not hold what they had.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.49, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 KCB, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
US Bougouni come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and KCB did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KCB
Ntsikelelo Nyauza 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Clyde Senaji 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
KCB supporters have found a favourite in Gomolemo Kekana
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Gomolemo Kekana has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KCB can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KCB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Kakamega Homeboyz left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at KCB training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stephen Etyang is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Gideon Werre in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Gideon Werre has his answer from KCB; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. KCB know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nobody at KCB has picked up the phone to Nashon Wekesa
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.