The KCB Chronicle
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Patrick Otieno runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Makan Samabaly, 33, rolls back the years — 8.07
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.07 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market8 Feb 2027
Victor Odhiambo 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 KCB can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at KCB
Makan Samabaly 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
4 academy players handed senior numbers at KCB
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Clyde Senaji 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
KCB get the job done against Mara Sugar
A 2‑0 win over Mara Sugar, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Eric Amuka joins the KCB first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eric Amuka is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Francis Mainge joins the KCB first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Francis Mainge is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Caleb Mulee steps up from the KCB academy
- Squad No hiding place for Gideon Werre
- Squad KCB pick somebody else ahead of Humphrey Mieno