The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel
Market2 Jul 2029
Terms done: Collins Kamau is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and APS Bomet waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Kakamega Homeboyz is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Brandon Obiero signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Brandon Obiero and Kakamega Homeboyz agree another 2 years.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Moses Mudavadi ran the middle of the pitch — 7.47
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 15 combined actions and a mark of 7.47, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Match30 Jun 2029
Kelly Madada sends Kakamega Homeboyz past Sofapaka
It finished 2‑1, and it was Kelly Madada’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kakamega Homeboyz.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at Kakamega Homeboyz
Portipher Odhiambo 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.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Henry Atola in the eights
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
One of those days for Kelly Madada
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Words at Kakamega Homeboyz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Derrick Otanga 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.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Intake day at the Kakamega Homeboyz academy
7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
In brief
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Kelly Madada
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than David Njeru