The Mara Sugar Chronicle
Market8 Feb 2027
Alex Imbusia puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mara Sugar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Mara Sugar
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The paperwork begins on Eugene Ikutwa
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Mara Sugar have done the hard part with Tusker, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Mara Sugar
Lwandile Khawuta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
3 academy graduates step up at Mara Sugar
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Mara Sugar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tshepiso Mahlangu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market8 Feb 2027
Timothy Kipkirui steps up from the Mara Sugar academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Timothy Kipkirui has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Brian Masika joins the Mara Sugar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brian Masika 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
Mara Sugar promote Jesse Onyango from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jesse Onyango has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Ebenezer Adukwaw
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Mara Sugar
- Squad Ebenezer Adukwaw wants out of the dugout