The Bandari Chronicle
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Bandari
Johnstone Omurwa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Johnstone Omurwa
“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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
126% of the income goes out in wages at Bandari
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Hassan Abdallah 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Hassan Abdallah has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Bandari 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The Alfred Emoni talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bandari know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Squad Questions about Victor Mainge on the training pitch
- The dugout Izzadin Juma keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Caleb Okoth back in training