Ochieng Manyama

Attacking Midfielder (L) - APS Bomet U18
3 Mar 2030
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Marked for Ochieng Manyama

140 Edition

The APS Bomet Sentinel

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market2 Apr 2029

Edward Masembe 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 APS Bomet can pretend not to have heard.

Market2 Apr 2029

Edward Masembe has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around APS Bomet they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Delton Oyo keeps APS Bomet in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Tempers go at APS Bomet

Sven Yidah 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.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Words at APS Bomet training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edward Masembe 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.

Match31 Mar 2029

APS Bomet come up short against Mathare United

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

Squad2 Apr 2029

Ochieng Manyama is the division's best young player this month

At 17 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. APS Bomet will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Player ratings2 Apr 2029

Curtis Wekesa beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout2 Apr 2029

Moses Juma answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

Back issues
139 Edition

The APS Bomet Sentinel

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match24 Mar 2029

At last: APS Bomet win one

11 matches without a win, and then this, against Sofapaka. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Market26 Mar 2029

Patrick Chemelil asks to leave APS Bomet

“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.

Market26 Mar 2029

Only the photograph left for Elvis Owusu

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Elvis Owusu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around APS Bomet the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Sven Yidah 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 APS Bomet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom26 Mar 2029

The numbers do not look good at APS Bomet

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

The terraces26 Mar 2029

One of their own: Elvis Owusu

He is 16 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match24 Mar 2029

APS Bomet see off Sofapaka

Three points for APS Bomet, 2‑0 the final word against Sofapaka in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout26 Mar 2029

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Moses Juma, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Player ratings26 Mar 2029

Edward Masembe was immovable

15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief