Ochieng Njeru

Left Forward - Kariobangi Sharks U18
3 May 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Ochieng Njeru

142 Edition

The Kariobangi Sharks Post

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

77 days out for Luke Onesmas after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kariobangi Sharks will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

The knee: Ochieng Njeru out for 17 days

17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kariobangi Sharks lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Kariobangi Sharks throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with AFC Leopards the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Kariobangi Sharks will enjoy reviewing.

Match

The wait goes on for Kariobangi Sharks

5 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.

Player ratings

Ayanda Tibe 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.

The dugout

Humphrey Aroko frozen out at Kariobangi Sharks

This is not rotation. Humphrey Aroko has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Kariobangi Sharks is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words at Kariobangi Sharks training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryn Deeley is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kariobangi Sharks

Richard Omondi 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.

The dugout

Jayden Van der Walt 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.

In brief

Back issues
141 Edition

The Kariobangi Sharks Post

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

84 days out for Luke Onesmas after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kariobangi Sharks will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Ochieng Njeru damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout

Bryn Deeley frozen out at Kariobangi Sharks

This is not rotation. Bryn Deeley has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Kariobangi Sharks is pretending otherwise.

Match

The wait goes on for Kariobangi Sharks

4 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Kariobangi Sharks

Ayanda Tibe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Kariobangi Sharks

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bryn Deeley was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Stephen Mbulere Bwire 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.

Player ratings

Nhlanhla Gasa was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Ian Karani

7.53, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Kariobangi Sharks had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief