The Ulinzi Stars Courier
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Ulinzi Stars
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
Abdalla Hamisi 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 Ulinzi Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Bidco United come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ulinzi Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Erick Balecho rejects the move
Ulinzi Stars had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Bandari, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Boniface Muchiri was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Clinton Omondi
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ulinzi Stars refuse to lose to Mathare United
A point taken on 87 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Match29 Aug 2026
Enosh Ochieng rescues a point for Ulinzi Stars
It needed Enosh Ochieng to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Mathare United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Ulinzi Stars try to borrow Erick Balecho
Bandari have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Bernard Mootian is still being punished for one mistake
- The dugout When it matters, Enosh Ochieng plays