Marked for Dennis Mbevi
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market9 Jul 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Posta Rangers people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings9 Jul 2029
Two goals and a mark of 9.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market9 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Elvis Noor 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 Posta Rangers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Jul 2029
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Collins Chemelil and Posta Rangers agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match7 Jul 2029
It finished 2‑1, and it was Veron Ombina’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Posta Rangers.
The terraces9 Jul 2029
He is 23 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.
Looking ahead9 Jul 2029
Everything rides on APS Bomet
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Posta Rangers know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
In brief
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Squad
Emile Dortley falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
Wages swallow 89% of the Posta Rangers income
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
Back issues
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Crisis
The terraces2 Apr 2029
The mood at Posta Rangers has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Elvis Noor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Words at Posta Rangers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harrison Mwendwa 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.
Match31 Mar 2029
Gor Mahia left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad2 Apr 2029
The young player of the month award goes to a 17-year-old at Posta Rangers who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
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 0‑1 Dennis Mwendwa left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Emile Dortley named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Emile Dortley is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
Dennis Mbevi 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.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
The plan did not have a place for Veron Ombina
Nobody at Posta Rangers 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.
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Crisis
Match17 Feb 2029
12 matches without a win for Posta Rangers
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Posta Rangers are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Bernard Ondiek 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.
Match17 Feb 2029
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Harrison Mwendwa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Feb 2029
0‑1 to Nairobi United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Market19 Feb 2029
Dennis Mbevi is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Posta Rangers has been clear about where Dennis Mbevi stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings19 Feb 2029
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Eric Amuka makes his debut at 17
At 17 years old, Eric Amuka became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Uneasy
Match10 Feb 2029
11 matches without a win for Posta Rangers
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Posta Rangers are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Posta Rangers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Posta Rangers now.
Squad12 Feb 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emile Dortley commits to Posta Rangers for another 4 years.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
Still no name above the door at Posta Rangers
Day 11 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.
The terraces12 Feb 2029
At 20 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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
26 games in 126 appearances where nobody scored at all. A keeper's career is counted in nothing happening, and none of this happened by accident.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
The manager has not finished forgetting Bernard Ondiek's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings12 Feb 2029
Marked 7.44. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces11 Dec 2028
The mood at Posta Rangers has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom11 Dec 2028
Pressure builds in the Posta Rangers boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Harrison Mwendwa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Words at Posta Rangers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emile Dortley 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 dugout11 Dec 2028
Vincent Wasambo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Posta Rangers will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.