Marked for Moise Mbombo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marvin Nabwire 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moise Mbombo, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tyshick Mosengo is on it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Geordy Ndecket knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Kenya Police, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Samuel Ayanrinde’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Next up on the road: Sofapaka, position 12. The supporters who go will talk about it all week and the ones who do not will check their phones at ten to five.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Joash Onyango named in the team of the week
A rating of 6.68 was enough for the selectors, and nobody who watched the match is going to argue with them.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
7 starts now, an average of 6.66, and the team sheet at Bidco United has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kenya Police lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Kenya Police
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Kenya Police are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yves Koutiama was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kenya Police this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Dennis Okoth after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Kenya Police are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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 dugout28 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
Job Ochieng is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Job Ochieng: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Kenya Police, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Kenya Police training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yves Koutiama 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Stephen Okola has come up in conversations Kenya Police were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Geordy Ndecket
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The kick that got away from Moise Mbombo
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.