Michael Okoth

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Marked for Michael Okoth

141 Edition

The Bandari Chronicle

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market9 Apr 2029

Michael Okoth 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 Bandari can pretend not to have heard.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Tempers go at Bandari

Alfred Emoni 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.

Match7 Apr 2029

A bad afternoon for Bandari against Sofapaka

0‑1 to Sofapaka, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad9 Apr 2029

A row about effort at Bandari

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bertrand Konfor Ngafei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings9 Apr 2029

Hassan Abdallah was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

Nicholas Onyango: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings9 Apr 2029

Alfred Emoni leaves them behind him

Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Looking ahead9 Apr 2029

Alex Sunga faces his old club

APS Bomet next, and one man in the Bandari dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad9 Apr 2029

A first senior shirt for Anthony Mbugua

Every debut is a small story about the future: Anthony Mbugua, 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

In brief

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133 Edition

The Bandari Chronicle

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Feb 2029

William Wadri damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout12 Feb 2029

Ally Yusuf: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bandari have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Tempers go at Bandari

Amza Moubarack 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.

Boardroom12 Feb 2029

Still no name above the door at Bandari

Day 11 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Hassan Abdallah 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.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Michael Okoth signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michael Okoth and Bandari agree another 3 years.

The dugout12 Feb 2029

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Victor Mbugua was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Bandari dressing room was either.

Match10 Feb 2029

Bandari and Kenya Police cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Kenya Police came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market12 Feb 2029

The Amza Moubarack talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bandari know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

132 Edition

The Bandari Chronicle

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Dennis Kipkirui is out at Bandari

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Squad5 Feb 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for William Wadri

52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bandari lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Victor Mbugua steps up at Bandari for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Deadline passes with 5 signed and 4 gone

That is the business done at Bandari until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Levis Opiyo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Levis Opiyo commits to Bandari for another 2 years.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Real improvement from Wesley Jose at Bandari

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Wesley Jose is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Words exchanged at Bandari

Amza Moubarack and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Graduation day at Bandari

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market5 Feb 2029

Michael Okoth steps up from the Bandari academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michael Okoth 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.

In brief