Eric Manyama

Right Forward - Kakamega Homeboyz
18 Apr 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Eric Manyama

185 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 32 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market

APS Bomet come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Kakamega Homeboyz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Kakamega Homeboyz

Joshua Nyatini 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.

Match

Nairobi United take the points off Kakamega Homeboyz

Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Derrick Otanga

“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.

Player ratings

Joshua Nyatini in the eights

A performance of 8.73 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Yashnarbek Berdirahmonov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

One of those days for Peter Thiong'o

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.66, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Timothy Nyakeya stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Timothy Nyakeya and Kakamega Homeboyz agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
183 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

28 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Kakamega Homeboyz

Joshua Nyatini 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.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Kakamega Homeboyz

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Market

Kariobangi Sharks are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Kakamega Homeboyz will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

103 Edition

The Kakamega Homeboyz Sentinel

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Edwin Mukolwe keeps Kakamega Homeboyz in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Nehemiah Onchiri puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kakamega Homeboyz, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Kakamega Homeboyz

Edwin Mukolwe 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.

Match

Kakamega Homeboyz see off Bandari

Three points for Kakamega Homeboyz, 2‑1 the final word against Bandari in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

One of those days for Idriss Hissein

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.67, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Musa Mohamed gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Kariobangi Sharks are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Kakamega Homeboyz will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joshua Nyatini

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A first senior shirt for Eric Manyama

Every debut is a small story about the future: Eric Manyama, 16 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

In brief