The Posta Rangers Post
Match8 Jul 2034
Still nobody has beaten Posta Rangers
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market10 Jul 2034
Brian Olunga 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.
Match8 Jul 2034
The run at home goes on for Posta Rangers
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad10 Jul 2034
Tempers go at Posta Rangers
Clifford Otieno 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.
Match8 Jul 2034
Late, late show earns Posta Rangers a point
Minute 91, against Mathare United, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Boardroom10 Jul 2034
Posta Rangers are $11.2M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Squad10 Jul 2034
A row about effort at Posta Rangers
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Evans Mwirigi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 Jul 2034
Samuel Miheso rescues a point for Posta Rangers
It needed Samuel Miheso to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Mathare United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout10 Jul 2034
Lewis Shivachi 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
- The dugout When it matters, Clement Zubah plays
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Itumeleng Kekana knocks on the manager's door