Kenneth Akpan

Defensive Midfielder - Kun Khalifat
17 Mar 2036
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Marked for Kenneth Akpan

499 Edition

The Kun Khalifat Chronicle

18 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match16 Feb 2036

20 matches without a win for Kun Khalifat

The run now stands at 20, and the questions being asked around Kun Khalifat are no longer polite ones.

The terraces18 Feb 2036

Anger at Kun Khalifat spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Player ratings18 Feb 2036

Nobody could get near Alex Amaefula

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market18 Feb 2036

Michael Iwobi asks to leave Kun Khalifat

“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.

Squad18 Feb 2036

Chijioke Ahiaeke 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.

Match16 Feb 2036

A bad afternoon for Kun Khalifat against Kwara United

1‑2 to Kwara United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

Back issues
496 Edition

The Kun Khalifat Chronicle

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Jan 2036

The wait goes on for Kun Khalifat

16 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad28 Jan 2036

A fracture rules Jerry Ogu out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kun Khalifat will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match26 Jan 2036

A hiding for Kun Khalifat

Beaten 0‑3 by Ikorodu City, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad28 Jan 2036

A one-man rearguard from Ikenna Benjamin

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market28 Jan 2036

Kenneth Akpan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kun Khalifat, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Words at Kun Khalifat training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chijioke Ahiaeke is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Ibrahim Akibu stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ibrahim Akibu and Kun Khalifat agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom28 Jan 2036

Nobody left the Kun Khalifat dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings28 Jan 2036

Nobody could get near Alex Amaefula

Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

493 Edition

The Kun Khalifat Chronicle

7 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Jan 2036

13 matches without a win for Kun Khalifat

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Kun Khalifat are no longer polite ones.

Squad7 Jan 2036

A fracture rules Jerry Ogu out for 54 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kun Khalifat will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Ademola Aribo damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market7 Jan 2036

Oscar Omeruo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kun Khalifat, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

Graduation day at Kun Khalifat

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.

Match5 Jan 2036

Kun Khalifat come up short against Bendel Insurance

Bendel Insurance left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Chijioke Ahiaeke 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.

Market7 Jan 2036

Kenneth Akpan steps up from the Kun Khalifat academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kenneth Akpan 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.

Market7 Jan 2036

Kun Khalifat promote Wilfred Okocha from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wilfred Okocha 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.

In brief