Mark Shaban

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Gor Mahia
27 Aug 2026
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The Gor Mahia Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Gor Mahia bow out of the cup

Nairobi United go through and Gor Mahia go home, 3‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

Eric Omondi leads the rout of APS Bomet

3‑0, and Eric Omondi took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Gor Mahia tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Mark Shaban's — 8.36

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Philemon Otieno 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 Gor Mahia can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Alpha Onyango goes up and wins it — 7.63

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.63 for the rest of it.

Player ratings

Enock Morrison has a hand in both — 7.99

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.99, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Frank Odhiambo 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Connor Jales

Gor Mahia asked and Kaizer Chiefs said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

One of their own: Ben Stanley Omondi

He is 22 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.

In brief