Marked for Noah Boxall
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad8 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nadroga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Nadroga counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Nadroga now.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nadroga may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Josua Tawake and Nadroga agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Asivorosi Rabo 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad6 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nadroga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Jone Ralumu
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
At 36, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 107 days on the sidelines for Frank Ouya, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Bernard Jairo: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nairobi United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match7 Aug 2027
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Nairobi United are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Aug 2027
John Otieno 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.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match7 Aug 2027
It needed Benson Omalla to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Mara Sugar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nairobi United, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market26 Oct 2026
Michael Singh 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 Canterbury United can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Callum Smith 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.31 — 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noah Fenton, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Noah Boxall, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I watch every Canterbury United game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Waitakere United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.