The Tusker Post
Match8 Sep 2035
AFC Leopards punish Tusker for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Abdoulaye Ndoram will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Tusker escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Diego Opazo is carrying Tusker
19 goals and a season average of 7.48. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market10 Sep 2035
Harun Mulee hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tusker can pretend not to have heard.
Match8 Sep 2035
No end in sight to Tusker's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tusker has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Tempers go at Tusker
Diego Opazo 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.
Player ratings10 Sep 2035
Evidence Modiba turns it into his own net
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Tusker deserved better, and so did he.
Squad10 Sep 2035
The manager makes an example of Wilson Mwangi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings10 Sep 2035
Diego Opazo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Vincent Owino 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Tusker are $21.1M in the red
- Match Abdoulaye Ndoram rescues a point for Tusker
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Chidiebere Nwobodo