Marked for Alex Sunga
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lawrence Kibet out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason APS Bomet will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” APS Bomet may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Hillary Otieno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Hillary Otieno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Muranga Seal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at APS Bomet training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ethen Sampson 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hillary Otieno, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at APS Bomet
Something was said to Curtis Wekesa and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Alex Sunga gets picked when it counts
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 Alex Sunga is on it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Alex Sunga wins it from the bench
Not in the side at kick-off and the story of it by the end. APS Bomet were going nowhere until he came on, and half an hour was all he needed.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for APS Bomet
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around APS Bomet are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Hillary Otieno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, APS Bomet had the best player on the pitch.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Half-satisfied: David Miheso on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Market21 Sep 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” James Khalela has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at APS Bomet.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Chances created: 9. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
When it matters, Alex Sunga plays
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
Match12 Aug 2026
APS Bomet through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Nairobi United, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match12 Aug 2026
Mark Bikokwa wins it after the whistle should have gone
90 minutes played. Mark Bikokwa found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Nairobi United went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Maxwell Kubasu pops up at the right end — 7.89
7.89, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $20.5K — a club that wants Jack Onganya enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Bandari this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
APS Bomet have gone to KCB with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at APS Bomet
Hillary Otieno 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Hillary Otieno ran the middle of the pitch — 6.79
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.79, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
In brief
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Player ratings
Brian Buleti did the work nobody counts — 7.09
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Player ratings
Alex Sunga ran the game
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