Marked for Ibrahim Wanzala
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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 Mara Sugar can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
The chase for Evans Mwirigi ended with $80.0K changing hands and APS Bomet out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alex Imbusia 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Mara Sugar spend $80.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $80.0K for Evans Mwirigi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Alex Imbusia
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
This league is too small for Paul Ochuoga
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Mara Sugar will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Match5 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. APS Bomet came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Ibrahim Ochieng
Nobody at Mara Sugar is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Back issues
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Steady
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 25 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market10 Aug 2026
Mara Sugar come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kakamega Homeboyz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Edwin Mukolwe 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.
Squad10 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑1 to KCB, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Kakamega Homeboyz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benson Mutonyi 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
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Brian Wekesa has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Kakamega Homeboyz.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Binga come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kakamega Homeboyz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Derrick Otanga and Kakamega Homeboyz agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 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 Kakamega Homeboyz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Kakamega Homeboyz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Derrick Otanga 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Josephat Lopaga, and the manager let it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Joshua Nyatini was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kakamega Homeboyz, another week without a signature from Portipher Odhiambo.