Christopher Raila

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Bidco United
5 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Christopher Raila

8 Edition

The Bidco United Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Bidco United

Clinton Okinyi 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

Ibrahima Dembélé 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Christopher Raila

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Thomas Wainaina

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Wainaina, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Christopher Raila takes the honours

Marked 7.83 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bidco United had the best player on the pitch.

Match

Christopher Raila rescues a point for Bidco United

It needed Christopher Raila to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against APS Bomet, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Bidco United Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Jacob Onyango wins it after the whistle should have gone

91 minutes played. Jacob Onyango found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Posta Rangers went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad

Tempers go at Bidco United

Clinton Okinyi 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

Ibrahima Dembélé 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Jacob Onyango

At 21 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

Bidco United find a way past Posta Rangers

Posta Rangers made Bidco United work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of David Kalama

“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.

Market

12 months and counting on Clinton Okinyi

Still no offer on the table, and Clinton Okinyi’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Jacob Onyango

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Jacob Onyango has come out of that comparison in the side, and Bidco United have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Market

Chinedu Ozor brings the grey hairs Bidco United lacked

At 33, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

In brief

4 Edition

The Bidco United Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bidco United out of the cup

Tusker ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

No end in sight to Bidco United's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bidco United has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Michael Bodo 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 Bidco United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

$47.0K for Clinton Okinyi, and Bidco United supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Clinton Okinyi from Kenya Police for $47.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

Simon Munala 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

The manager makes an example of Thomas Wainaina

“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.

Squad

Lefa Ngwenya signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lefa Ngwenya commits to Bidco United for another 3 years.

Match

Bidco United and Nairobi United take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market

Bidco United bring in an old head

Clinton Okinyi is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

2 Edition

The Bidco United Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Bidco United

Michael Bodo 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 Bidco United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ibrahima Dembélé 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.

Squad

Ibrahima Dembélé has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Bidco United know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Market

Still no ink between Bidco United and John Kelwishi

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bidco United, another week without a signature from John Kelwishi.

Market

48 months and counting on John Otieno

Still no offer on the table, and John Otieno’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

Bidco United pick somebody else ahead of John Otieno

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.

In brief