Eric Mukangula

Left Forward - Mara Sugar U18
21 Aug 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Eric Mukangula

82 Edition

The Mara Sugar Chronicle

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Mara Sugar's wait for a win

15 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mara Sugar has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Mara Sugar

Alex Imbusia 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Prince Otubua

Marked 8.50 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Kelvin Mwavali runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Mara Sugar and Kariobangi Sharks take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Robinson Musungu 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.

Squad

Prince Otubua is off the mark for Mara Sugar

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

Eric Mukangula makes his debut at 15

At 15 years old, Eric Mukangula became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

Market

The Hamoudi Kalaily talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mara Sugar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

Back issues
80 Edition

The Mara Sugar Chronicle

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Mara Sugar

13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Mara Sugar taken apart

0‑3 to KCB, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 25 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market

Joseph Masika comes home

The shirt still fits. Joseph Masika is back at Mara Sugar, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Nicholas Odhiambo comes home

The shirt still fits. Nicholas Odhiambo is back at Mara Sugar, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Eric Mukangula is a Mara Sugar player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

As if he never left: Victor Njeru returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Victor Njeru is a Mara Sugar player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad

Tempers go at Mara Sugar

Alex Imbusia 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vincent Mulama

“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.

In brief