The Gor Mahia Chronicle
Match6 Feb 2027
12 unbeaten for Gor Mahia
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Gor Mahia did not have in the autumn.
Market8 Feb 2027
Terms done: Bryton Onyona is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Shabana waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Gor Mahia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market8 Feb 2027
Joseph Odhiambo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gor Mahia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match6 Feb 2027
Gor Mahia make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Lucan Louw gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lucan Louw has just signed for Gor Mahia, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
3 academy graduates step up at Gor Mahia
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Frank Odhiambo 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Enock Morrison 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 Gor Mahia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
The crowd has taken to Rivaldo Mabunda
At 22 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.
In brief
- Market Samuel Olunga steps up from the Gor Mahia academy
- Market Samuel Ochieng steps up from the Gor Mahia academy
- Player ratings A masterclass from Rivaldo Mabunda