The Posta Rangers Post
Market25 Sep 2034
Samuel Juma asks to leave Posta Rangers
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match23 Sep 2034
Veron Ombina’s goal not enough for Posta Rangers
Veron Ombina scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Ulinzi Stars, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad25 Sep 2034
Nassim Soudani falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad25 Sep 2034
Ronwen Khune in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Posta Rangers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Sep 2034
When it matters, Veron Ombina plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The terraces25 Sep 2034
The spotlight tightens on Fredrick Odhiambo
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad25 Sep 2034
Caleb Ouma is still paying for one afternoon at Posta Rangers
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings25 Sep 2034
David Kipkirui ran the game
Chances created: 6. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
Player ratings25 Sep 2034
Kermit Vilakazi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 6. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Boardroom The Posta Rangers production line keeps running
- Market The shop window has Peter Mulee in it