The Nairobi United Herald
Squad19 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Seketso Moremi
80 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nairobi United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Henry Atola runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Nairobi United
Henry Atola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Bryn Deeley 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
Nairobi United and Kariobangi Sharks 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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Ibrahim Nyakeya on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ibrahim Nyakeya after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Ernest Mohammed
“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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Yusuf Mainge has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Nairobi United 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Eric Amuka, 15, gets his chance
Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 15. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.
In brief
- Market The Henry Atola story refuses to die
- The dugout Roy Okal left out for tactical reasons at Nairobi United
- Market Lennox Ogutu placed on the list