The words a physio says slowly. 83 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. AFC Leopards moved on, Kevin Omondi reports back to Gor Mahia, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ben Stanley Omondi 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.
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Gor Mahia have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
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A place in the month's best eleven for Gad Mathews
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Gad Mathews has come out of that comparison in the side, and Gor Mahia have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Byrne Omondi: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
The offer from APS Bomet for Ebenezer Adukwaw was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gor Mahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
APS Bomet will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Gor Mahia were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Yacouba Doumbia 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.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Gor Mahia and APS Bomet, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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 phone has started ringing about Ebenezer Adukwaw again, and this time the name on the line is APS Bomet. Gor Mahia are listening politely and promising nothing.
8.55. 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.