The Sofapaka Gazette
Squad25 Feb 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Bryson Jerome
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sofapaka lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match23 Feb 2030
4 matches without a win for Sofapaka
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sofapaka are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Words exchanged at Sofapaka
Titus Achesa 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.
Match23 Feb 2030
A bad afternoon for Sofapaka against Nairobi United
1‑3 to Nairobi United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad25 Feb 2030
A row about effort at Sofapaka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anthony Kenneth Mensah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Feb 2030
The manager makes an example of Mpendulo Ntuli
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout25 Feb 2030
Anthony Mainge: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings25 Feb 2030
Brian Chonjo Otieno beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom25 Feb 2030
Nobody arrives at Sofapaka until somebody leaves
The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Sofapaka this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.
In brief
- The dugout Anthony Kenneth Mensah knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Joseph Nyakeya makes his debut at 17
- Market The Dennis Oalo talk will not go away