The Kun Khalifat Chronicle
Match6 Feb 2038
Chastening afternoon for Kun Khalifat
A 1‑6 beating by Kano Pillars was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match3 Feb 2038
Cup progress for Kun Khalifat
A 1‑0 win over Kwara United, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings8 Feb 2038
A debut Abdullahi Akpan will not forget — 7.46
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.46 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Squad8 Feb 2038
Musa Lookman keeps Kun Khalifat in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad8 Feb 2038
Alex Amaefula stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alex Amaefula and Kun Khalifat agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match6 Feb 2038
7 goals as Kun Khalifat and Kano Pillars go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Kun Khalifat and Kano Pillars, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad8 Feb 2038
Blessed Iyamu 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.
Squad8 Feb 2038
Felix Oloye 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 Kun Khalifat this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Feb 2038
Bright Eze was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.83. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Player ratings Alex Amaefula was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Boardroom Nobody left the Kun Khalifat dressing room in a hurry
- Player ratings Abdullahi Nwankwo runs at them all day