Amani Kumar

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39 Edition

The Nasinu Sentinel

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Nasinu

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Alibek Bakoyev puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Nasinu, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Shohruhbek Yoqubjonov 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

A bad afternoon for Nasinu against Nadroga

1‑2 to Nadroga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Jone Naraba 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 Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Emori Ragata 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.

In brief

Back issues
32 Edition

The Nasinu Sentinel

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A debut Ibrahim Hassan will not forget — 7.14

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.14 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Nasoni Mereke asks to leave Nasinu

“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.

Squad

Emori Ragata stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Emori Ragata and Nasinu agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Nasinu

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Taniela Rakariva 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.

Squad

Jone Naraba 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 Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ibrahim Hassan

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

One of our own: Viliame Drudru joins the Nasinu first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viliame Drudru is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Isikeli Waqa joins the Nasinu first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Isikeli Waqa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief