The AFC Leopards Herald
Match5 Feb 2028
AFC Leopards make home a hard place to visit
20 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Cleo Ssetuba damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Feb 2028
Samuel Ssenyonjo asks to leave AFC Leopards
“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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at AFC Leopards
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
AFC Leopards beat the market to David Owino from Kenya Police
Kenya Police will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. David Owino has pre-agreed a move to AFC Leopards, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Nobody could get near Hassan Beja
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Kaycie 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Angus Kilkolly 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 AFC Leopards this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Feb 2028
One of our own: Elvis Kahata joins the AFC Leopards first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Elvis Kahata is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Francis Olunga joins the AFC Leopards first team
- Market Harun Rupia steps up from the AFC Leopards academy
- Squad The manager makes an example of James Kinyanjui