The Mara Sugar Chronicle
Squad4 Sep 2028
31 days out for Geoffrey Ochieng after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mara Sugar will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Mara Sugar put Dennis Chemelil on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Emergency meeting at Mara Sugar
The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
No sign of nerves from Khama Mkhize at 18 — 7.79
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Khama Mkhize did not need any: 7.79, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market4 Sep 2028
Godfred Sakyi asks to leave Mara Sugar
“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.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Mara Sugar close the window on a squad of their own making
12 in and 10 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market4 Sep 2028
Only the photograph left for Joseph Ogenda
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joseph Ogenda will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mara Sugar the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match2 Sep 2028
Mara Sugar cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad4 Sep 2028
David James arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. David James has, at Mara Sugar, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
In brief
- Transfer targets Shabana tell Mara Sugar: Brian Olang'o is not for sale
- Squad Luyanda Makhathini in a row with a teammate
- The terraces One of their own: Khama Mkhize