Brian Ochieng

Left Wingback - Mathare United
11 May 2029
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The Mathare United Sentinel

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout25 Sep 2028

Kevin Ouru frozen out at Mathare United

This is not rotation. Kevin Ouru has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Mathare United is pretending otherwise.

Match23 Sep 2028

3 matches without a goal for Mathare United

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Mathare United

Tswelelo Maake 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.

Match23 Sep 2028

A bad afternoon for Mathare United against Shabana

0‑1 to Shabana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout25 Sep 2028

Eliud Lokuwam 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.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Samuel Kapen has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Mathare United know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

The dugout25 Sep 2028

Brian Ayumba answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Falakhe Tshanini 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.

The dugout25 Sep 2028

Peter Oudu is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

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The Mathare United Sentinel

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Feb 2028

Kgwadi Molepo asks to leave Mathare United

“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.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Mathare United close the window on a squad of their own making

7 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

The Mathare United board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at Mathare United

Eliud Lokuwam 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.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Graduation day at Mathare United

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

The dugout7 Feb 2028

Douglas Mokaya frozen out at Mathare United

This is not rotation. Douglas Mokaya has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Mathare United is pretending otherwise.

Market7 Feb 2028

One of our own: Samuel Kahata joins the Mathare United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Kahata is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market7 Feb 2028

One of our own: Francis Mulee joins the Mathare United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Francis Mulee is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market7 Feb 2028

One of our own: Brian Ochieng joins the Mathare United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brian Ochieng is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief