The Kun Khalifat Chronicle
Squad8 Mar 2027
Hassan Olubode says Kun Khalifat went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market8 Mar 2027
Chukwuma Ukoh has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kun Khalifat they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market8 Mar 2027
Benson Benkin 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 The request is on a desk at Kun Khalifat, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Kun Khalifat
Akpan Nsikak-Abong 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Kun Khalifat cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Samad Popoola 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
- Squad Samad Popoola gets it from the manager
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Joseph Ameh
- Player ratings Chinonso Romanus runs at them all day
- Match Kun Khalifat and Enyimba cancel each other out