The Gor Mahia Chronicle
Match11 Sep 2027
Gor Mahia win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. KCB will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market13 Sep 2027
Gor Mahia say no — this time
The offer from Mathare United for Giscard Mavoungou 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Samuel Kapen was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Peter Simon, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76
A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market13 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Ebenezer Adukwaw
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ebenezer Adukwaw will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gor Mahia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Gor Mahia
Alpha Onyango and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Gor Mahia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Frank Odhiambo 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.
The terraces13 Sep 2027
One of their own: Amad Keita
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match11 Sep 2027
Gor Mahia find a way past KCB
KCB made Gor Mahia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Yonghyun Park
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Gor Mahia keep their word to Patrick Ekandjoum