The Bidco United Herald
Squad6 Nov 2028
A fracture rules Steve Hoffman out for 109 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bidco United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match6 Nov 2028
Bidco United sink to position 18
26 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Words exchanged at Bidco United
Sifiso Molefe 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Simon Munala 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.
Market6 Nov 2028
One of our own: Brian Ochieng joins the Bidco 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.
Market6 Nov 2028
Caleb Wanyama steps up from the Bidco United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Caleb Wanyama has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market6 Nov 2028
One of our own: Caleb Juma joins the Bidco United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Caleb Juma is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Nov 2028
Bidco United promote Caleb Kagere from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Caleb Kagere has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Too much change too quickly at Bidco United
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout Brian Chonjo Otieno back under a manager who knows him
- Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Bidco United
- The dugout Simon Munala has become a man the manager trusts