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Marked for Baba Afful

86 Edition

The Mara Sugar Chronicle

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match18 Mar 2028

11 matches without a win for Mara Sugar

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Mara Sugar are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings20 Mar 2028

Nothing got past Kelvin Mwavali

30 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Market20 Mar 2028

Timothy Ndayala has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mara Sugar they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market20 Mar 2028

Baba Afful asks to leave Mara Sugar

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Mara Sugar

Alex Imbusia 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.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Raz Baruchian pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Tyshick Mosengo 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.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Isaac Asante signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Isaac Asante commits to Mara Sugar for another 3 years.

Player ratings20 Mar 2028

Nobody could get near Adam Iliasu

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The Mara Sugar Chronicle

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Nov 2027

Mara Sugar sink to position 18

25 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market1 Nov 2027

Timothy Ndayala is on his way

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

Market1 Nov 2027

Thomas Harun asks to leave Mara Sugar

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Mara Sugar

Tyshick Mosengo 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.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Mara Sugar count the cost of losing James Kamau

28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Aineah Ndete 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.

In brief

58 Edition

The Mara Sugar Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Mara Sugar put Moses Manyama on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Match6 Sep 2027

Mara Sugar are in real trouble now

Position 16, 25 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market6 Sep 2027

Vincent Mulama 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 Mara Sugar can pretend not to have heard.

Market6 Sep 2027

Timothy Ndayala is on his way

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

Squad6 Sep 2027

Alex Imbusia 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 Mara Sugar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

One of those days for Kelvin Mwavali

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.60, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match4 Sep 2027

Mara Sugar see off APS Bomet

Three points for Mara Sugar, 1‑0 the final word against APS Bomet in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Aineah Ndete 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Baba Afful stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Baba Afful and Mara Sugar agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief