Telvin Irungu

Defensive Midfielder - Muranga Seal
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Telvin Irungu

14 Edition

The Muranga Seal Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Elly Saenyi

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Muranga Seal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Sani Rizki breaks a bone — 90 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Sani Rizki 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 Muranga Seal can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Muranga Seal Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Elly Saenyi damages knee ligaments — 85 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 85 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Muranga Seal

Sani Rizki 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.

Squad

Words at Muranga Seal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Waithira 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Victor Haki

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Muranga Seal get the job done against Posta Rangers

A 2‑0 win over Posta Rangers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Telvin Irungu 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.

Player ratings

John Kiplangat takes the honours

Marked 7.70 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Muranga Seal had the best player on the pitch.

Player ratings

Lameck Omondi was immovable

15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Market

Still no ink between Muranga Seal and Uzoigwe Odinaka

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Muranga Seal, another week without a signature from Uzoigwe Odinaka.

In brief

6 Edition

The Muranga Seal Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Elly Saenyi

93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Muranga Seal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Muranga Seal tear Kakamega Homeboyz apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Kakamega Homeboyz, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

A brace, and Sani Rizki takes the afternoon — 7.68

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sani Rizki provided it, and the 7.68 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

William Gitama, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.99

A mark of 7.99 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Sani Rizki 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.

Squad

Lucas Maina 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 Muranga Seal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A month that belonged to Jackson Imbiakha

The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Muranga Seal who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Market

A long bet from Muranga Seal on Uzoigwe Odinaka

He is 20, and nobody at Muranga Seal signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Robert Mudenyu

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief