The Mara Sugar Chronicle
Match19 Feb 2028
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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
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 ratings21 Feb 2028
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 ratings21 Feb 2028
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.
Match19 Feb 2028
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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
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.
Market21 Feb 2028
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
- The terraces The press have found their man in Prince Otubua
- Boardroom Mara Sugar keep producing them