Ronwen Lorch

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27 Mar 2030
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172 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

12 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Ibrahim Wanzala says Kakamega Homeboyz went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ben Saul

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ben Saul will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kakamega Homeboyz the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Joshua Nyatini in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kakamega Homeboyz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Charles Momanyi 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.

Market

Josephat Lopaga linked with a move away

The name of Josephat Lopaga keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kakamega Homeboyz say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Ibrahim Wanzala has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Kakamega Homeboyz will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Comfort Ngubo has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Comfort Ngubo has written the date down.

Squad

Questions about Lewis Sandford on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

The dugout

The manager comes out for Rodgers Ouma

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Rodgers Ouma has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

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The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

17 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Peter Thiong'o runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Ben Saul is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kakamega Homeboyz is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Joshua Nyatini in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kakamega Homeboyz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Whatever happens, Kakamega Homeboyz do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Charles Momanyi 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.

Match

Kakamega Homeboyz find a way past Ulinzi Stars

Ulinzi Stars made Kakamega Homeboyz work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Derrick Otanga

Marked 8.01 — 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.

The dugout

Vincent Ogolla gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Peter Thiong'o is carrying Kakamega Homeboyz

5 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief