The Bendel Insurance Post
Squad15 Sep 2031
Alex Oweilayefa breaks a bone — 110 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match13 Sep 2031
Bendel Insurance leave it late against Wikki Tourists
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 86th, and Wikki Tourists spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Player ratings15 Sep 2031
Both of them Uche Collins's — 8.70
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.70, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market15 Sep 2031
Chiemezie Gabriel 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 Bendel Insurance can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Sep 2031
Words exchanged at Bendel Insurance
Yusuf Mannase 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 ratings15 Sep 2031
Yusuf Mannase runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match13 Sep 2031
Bendel Insurance find a way past Wikki Tourists
Wikki Tourists made Bendel Insurance work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market15 Sep 2031
Chukwuma Akpan steps up from the Bendel Insurance academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Chukwuma Akpan 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
Bendel Insurance promote Musa Lookman from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Musa Lookman 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
- Market Bendel Insurance promote Anthony Sadiq from within
- The dugout Chukwuma Abacha has his say
- The dugout Alex Oweilayefa has become a man the manager trusts