Caleb Mainge

Right Midfielder - Ulinzi Stars
4 Aug 2043
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Marked for Caleb Mainge

876 Edition

The Ulinzi Stars Courier

11 May 2043
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 May 2043

Luther Mokoena damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 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.

Match9 May 2043

9 matches without a win for Ulinzi Stars

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Ulinzi Stars are no longer polite ones.

Match6 May 2043

Ulinzi Stars bow out of the cup

Tusker go through and Ulinzi Stars go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market11 May 2043

Dennis Kipkirui 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 The request is on a desk at Ulinzi Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad11 May 2043

Sasha Gomeniuk in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ulinzi Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match9 May 2043

The goals have deserted Ulinzi Stars

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ulinzi Stars can tell you which week it ends in.

In brief

Back issues
861 Edition

The Ulinzi Stars Courier

26 Jan 2043
From our football correspondent Steady

Market26 Jan 2043

Patrick Ouma 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 The request is on a desk at Ulinzi Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market26 Jan 2043

Only the photograph left for Kenneth Mwendwa

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kenneth Mwendwa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ulinzi Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad26 Jan 2043

Tempers go at Ulinzi Stars

Sasha Gomeniuk 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.

Squad26 Jan 2043

Nicholas Ayumba stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicholas Ayumba and Ulinzi Stars agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad26 Jan 2043

Jefferson Bononda has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ulinzi Stars will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad26 Jan 2043

The manager makes an example of Caleb Mainge

“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.

In brief

853 Edition

The Ulinzi Stars Courier

1 Dec 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Dec 2042

Anthony Masika damages knee ligaments — 67 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 67 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.

Squad1 Dec 2042

Tempers go at Ulinzi Stars

Sasha Gomeniuk 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.

Squad1 Dec 2042

Jefferson Bononda has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ulinzi Stars will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

847 Edition

The Ulinzi Stars Courier

20 Oct 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Oct 2042

Caleb Mainge: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ulinzi Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad20 Oct 2042

Tempers go at Ulinzi Stars

Sasha Gomeniuk 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.

Squad20 Oct 2042

The manager makes an example of Clinton Ochieng

“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.

In brief

843 Edition

The Ulinzi Stars Courier

22 Sep 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings22 Sep 2042

No sign of nerves from Dennis Nyakeya at 21 — 7.71

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dennis Nyakeya did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings22 Sep 2042

Nothing got past Jefferson Bononda

25 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad22 Sep 2042

Jamal Abubakar in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ulinzi Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match20 Sep 2042

Dennis Nyakeya the difference as Ulinzi Stars beat Posta Rangers

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dennis Nyakeya. 2‑0 against Posta Rangers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match20 Sep 2042

Posta Rangers blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Posta Rangers tried to reorganise, Ulinzi Stars did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Player ratings22 Sep 2042

Nothing got past Anthony Masika

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief