Eric Nyakeya

Striker - Mathare United
22 Dec 2030
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208 Edition

The Mathare United Sentinel

22 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match20 Jul 2030

The run at home goes on for Mathare United

26 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match20 Jul 2030

12 matches without a win for Mathare United

The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Mathare United are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings22 Jul 2030

Nobody could get near John Macharia

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market22 Jul 2030

Muranga Seal are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Mathare United will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad22 Jul 2030

Tempers go at Mathare United

Douglas Mokaya 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.

Match20 Jul 2030

Mathare United and Muranga Seal take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad22 Jul 2030

No hiding place for Francis Kagere

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francis Kagere, and the manager let it.

Squad22 Jul 2030

When it matters, Douglas Mokaya 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.

Squad22 Jul 2030

A Mathare United teenager takes the young player award

Joseph Omurwa is 18, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief

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203 Edition

The Mathare United Sentinel

17 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match15 Jun 2030

15 unbeaten for Mathare United

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Mathare United did not have in the autumn.

Market17 Jun 2030

Bidco United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Mathare United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match15 Jun 2030

The wait goes on for Mathare United

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match15 Jun 2030

The goals have deserted Mathare United

6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Mathare United can tell you which week it ends in.

Market17 Jun 2030

James Miheso is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mathare United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad17 Jun 2030

Douglas Mokaya 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 Mathare United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Jun 2030

Mathare United lose Harun Ouma

24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad17 Jun 2030

Eric Nyakeya signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Eric Nyakeya commits to Mathare United for another 3 years.

Boardroom17 Jun 2030

Mathare United counting the cost

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

In brief

156 Edition

The Mathare United Sentinel

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match21 Jul 2029

Mathare United win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Muranga Seal will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad23 Jul 2029

Tempers go at Mathare United

Makan Samabaly 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.

The terraces23 Jul 2029

The crowd has taken to Eric Nyakeya

At 17 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.

Match21 Jul 2029

Nobody wins at Mathare United

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match21 Jul 2029

Mathare United find a way past Muranga Seal

Muranga Seal made Mathare United work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad23 Jul 2029

Dennis Magio 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.

Player ratings23 Jul 2029

Makan Samabaly runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad23 Jul 2029

The manager makes an example of Douglas Mokaya

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market23 Jul 2029

Muranga Seal expected to open talks for Klinsman Omulanga

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Mathare United will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief