The Mara Sugar Chronicle
Market23 Apr 2029
Lameck Omondi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mara Sugar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Tempers go at Mara Sugar
Lameck Omondi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces23 Apr 2029
Mara Sugar supporters have found a favourite in Amos Muguna
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Amos Muguna has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match21 Apr 2029
Mara Sugar get the job done against Posta Rangers
A 1‑0 win over Posta Rangers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
One of those days for Tenuka Ranaweera
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Abdulhamid Kabiru 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.
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
Nobody could get near Caleb Karisa
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Thomas Harun dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Lameck Omondi knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mara Sugar, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Price Omenda
- Player ratings Brian Ochieng spends the afternoon fouling
- The terraces Tenuka Ranaweera has his own song now