Marked for Mohammed Barisa
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bandari may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match26 Sep 2026
Bandari make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bandari have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Levis Opiyo 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Bandari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Abdallah 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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Bidco United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 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 Bandari can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Bandari
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Bandari are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bertrand Konfor Ngafei 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.
Squad7 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Bandari against KCB
0‑1 to KCB, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Market31 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 Bandari can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Bandari
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Bandari are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Levis Opiyo 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Mohammed Barisa, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Bandari do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Levis Opiyo 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
70 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
7.97, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bandari had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Bandari
1‑1 against Posta Rangers, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
James Omusinde decides it from twelve yards
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Levis Opiyo
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Rajab Omar 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 Bandari can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Nyamawi Beja for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Bandari will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Levis Opiyo 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.
Player ratings24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Nyamawi Beja to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Gor Mahia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.