The Sofapaka Gazette
Squad20 Dec 2027
Titus Achesa 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 Sofapaka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words at Sofapaka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sammy Kiplangat 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.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Victor Augo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sofapaka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market20 Dec 2027
The Eugene Wethuli talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sofapaka know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
A door opens for Yusuf Mohamed
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Tshepang Mogotlane knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sofapaka, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad The penny has dropped for Felix Mulyungi
- Match Nothing left to play for but pride at Sofapaka
- Squad Anthony Njeru is out on the grass again