Damien Lloyd

Left Forward - Kakamega Homeboyz U18
31 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Damien Lloyd

115 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Kakamega Homeboyz are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 56 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Tempers go at Kakamega Homeboyz

Cohen Stander 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.

Squad

Edwin Mukolwe 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

Back issues
111 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Kakamega Homeboyz are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 52 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Joshua Nyatini signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joshua Nyatini commits to Kakamega Homeboyz for another 4 years.

Player ratings

Joshua Nyatini has a hand in both — 7.96

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.96, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Tempers go at Kakamega Homeboyz

Edwin Mukolwe 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 ratings

Nothing got past Mbarak Musa Omari

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Match

Joshua Nyatini sends Kakamega Homeboyz past Kenya Police

It finished 2‑0, and it was Joshua Nyatini’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kakamega Homeboyz.

Squad

Damien Lloyd out for 50 days

The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Damien Lloyd, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Portipher Odhiambo

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

A promise honoured for Joshua Nyatini

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kakamega Homeboyz told Joshua Nyatini something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

93 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joshua Nyatini damages knee ligaments — 57 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Damien Lloyd sends Kakamega Homeboyz through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Damien Lloyd obliged against Shabana. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Kakamega Homeboyz.

Player ratings

Josephat Lopaga runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Damien Lloyd wins it after the whistle should have gone

101 minutes played. Damien Lloyd found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Shabana went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Market

Salim Murunga asks to leave Kakamega Homeboyz

“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.

Player ratings

A debut Harun Juma will not forget — 7.67

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.67 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Mbarak Musa Omari

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Cohen Stander signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cohen Stander commits to Kakamega Homeboyz for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Kakamega Homeboyz

Edwin Mukolwe 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.

In brief

80 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Roy Katri asks to leave Kakamega Homeboyz

“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.

Match

No end in sight to Kakamega Homeboyz's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kakamega Homeboyz has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Damien Lloyd is a Kakamega Homeboyz player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad

Tempers go at Kakamega Homeboyz

Cohen Stander 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 ratings

Josephat Lopaga runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Kakamega Homeboyz

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.

Boardroom

Kakamega Homeboyz counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Kakamega Homeboyz now.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Kakamega Homeboyz

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Words at Kakamega Homeboyz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Derrick Otanga 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.

In brief