Marked for Brian Buleti
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match20 Feb 2027
Chastening afternoon for APS Bomet
A 2‑5 beating by Tusker was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad22 Feb 2027
There were 8 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at APS Bomet
Sven Yidah 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between APS Bomet and Tusker, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Buleti
“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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Nobody left the APS Bomet dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑5 defeat, delivered by Francis Nyakeya to a room that had heard them before.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at APS Bomet
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edward Masembe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hansel Ochieng commits to APS Bomet for another 3 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Sven Yidah 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 APS Bomet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at APS Bomet
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mathare United have kept their man, and APS Bomet go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match6 Feb 2027
1‑2 to Kenya Police, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market8 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Harun Chemelil has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Morgan Ambuka
“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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at APS Bomet
Hillary Otieno 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at APS Bomet
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edward Masembe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Kenya Police: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market4 Jan 2027
Sosthenes Idah is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at APS Bomet has been clear about where Sosthenes Idah stands, which is more than many ever get.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Open for business: APS Bomet enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
Squad4 Jan 2027
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes Bob Cetric a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at APS Bomet. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. APS Bomet have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules James Khalela out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason APS Bomet will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 138% of everything APS Bomet earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at APS Bomet
Sven Yidah 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Edward Masembe 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brian Buleti named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Brian Buleti is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Bob Cetric 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at APS Bomet
Hillary Otieno 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at APS Bomet training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edward Masembe 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Edward Masembe knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at APS Bomet, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Bob Cetric has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Bob Cetric has written the date down.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Next up on the road: Muranga Seal, position 9. The supporters who go will talk about it all week and the ones who do not will check their phones at ten to five.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brian Buleti named in the team of the week
A rating of 6.60 was enough for the selectors, and nobody who watched the match is going to argue with them.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
KCB left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Curtis Wekesa ran the middle of the pitch — 6.55
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 12 combined actions and a mark of 6.55, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dalphine Omuri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Francis Nyakeya left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and APS Bomet will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Dalphine Omuri knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dalphine Omuri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the APS Bomet squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.