The Tusker Post
Squad7 Feb 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for George Mulee
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tusker lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Dennis Wanjala out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tusker will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Eric Kapaito scores twice — 8.45
Two goals and a mark of 8.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Tusker close the window on a squad of their own making
5 in and 1 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
Tusker make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tusker have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Ian Simiyu Jr. in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tusker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
4 academy graduates step up at Tusker
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.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Abia Warriors tell Tusker: Ugochukwu David is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Tusker
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abud Omar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Match Tusker get the job done against Posta Rangers
- Market Tusker promote Nicholas Olunga from within
- Market Caleb Ochieng steps up from the Tusker academy