Ibrahim Olunga

Left Forward - Muranga Seal
16 Apr 2036
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The Muranga Seal Chronicle

14 Apr 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Apr 2036

8 saves: Tholithemba Nyawose was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match12 Apr 2036

A bad afternoon for Muranga Seal against Ulinzi Stars

0‑1 to Ulinzi Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad14 Apr 2036

Ibrahim Olunga stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ibrahim Olunga and Muranga Seal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout14 Apr 2036

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings14 Apr 2036

Kevin Olunga beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout14 Apr 2036

Somebody else is better right now than Francis Muguna

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Market14 Apr 2036

The Telvin Irungu talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Muranga Seal know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout14 Apr 2036

When it matters, Dennis Omurwa plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market14 Apr 2036

Muranga Seal and James Okoth are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

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The Muranga Seal Chronicle

17 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces17 Sep 2035

Supporters organise against the Muranga Seal board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market17 Sep 2035

Brian Kipkirui 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 Muranga Seal, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout17 Sep 2035

Elvis Ayumba says Muranga Seal 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.

Match15 Sep 2035

Muranga Seal come up short against Kakamega Homeboyz

Kakamega Homeboyz left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout17 Sep 2035

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad17 Sep 2035

Elvis Ayumba 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.

The dugout17 Sep 2035

The team sheet said everything about Brian Kipkirui

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Brian Kipkirui.

Market17 Sep 2035

Elvis Ayumba told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Elvis Ayumba has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Muranga Seal.

The terraces17 Sep 2035

The spotlight tightens on Tholithemba Nyawose

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief