The Muranga Seal Chronicle
Squad15 Sep 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joseph Waithira
134 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Muranga Seal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match13 Sep 2031
12 matches without a win for Muranga Seal
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Muranga Seal are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Sep 2031
A fracture rules Timothy Onyango out for 43 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Muranga Seal will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Sep 2031
Francis Gethoi 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 Muranga Seal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Sep 2031
Kakamega Homeboyz take the points off Muranga Seal
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market15 Sep 2031
One of our own: Dennis Juma joins the Muranga Seal first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dennis Juma is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Sep 2031
Patrick Mainge steps up from the Muranga Seal academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Mainge 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.
Market15 Sep 2031
Muranga Seal promote Jesse Mainge from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jesse Mainge 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.
Market15 Sep 2031
Moses Olunga steps up from the Muranga Seal academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Moses Olunga 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
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Robert Mudenyu
- Squad Peter Mainge signs a new deal
- The dugout The manager’s verdict