The Shabana Post
Match11 Aug 2029
No mercy from Shabana
Sofapaka will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Shabana were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad13 Aug 2029
A fracture rules Michael Owusu out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Shabana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Both of them Brian Junior Olega's — 9.13
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market13 Aug 2029
Eliot Meredith puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Shabana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market13 Aug 2029
Evans Mwirigi is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shabana is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Shabana
Sebastian Wekesa 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.
Match11 Aug 2029
6 goals as Shabana and Sofapaka go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Shabana and Sofapaka, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Cayden Steffener gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Cayden Steffener has just signed for Shabana, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Words at Shabana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cliff Nyakeya 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Erick Otieno was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The terraces Shabana supporters have found a favourite in Ezekiah Omuri
- The dugout news_h_frozen_out_of_the_side