The Mathare United Sentinel
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Robert Mboya
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mathare United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market16 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Donald Ange Paterne
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Donald Ange Paterne will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mathare United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Mathare United
Victor Omune and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Douglas Mokaya 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Victor Omune asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes Klinsman Omulanga a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Mathare United. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Market The Brian Ndenga question follows Mathare United around
- The dugout Dennis Mukoye keeps his manager's vote
- Squad John Mulee is fit again