Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia may soon start fielding defender Dirkir Glay in local league matches.

This comes in the wake of hard line stands being taken by the two football bodies that are embroiled in management bouts currently

Despite carrying the favorites tag ahead of their CAF Champions League clash with Gor Mahia, the Congolese side AC Leopards will not underrate their Sunday hosts in any way. Speaking to Standard Sports ahead of the titanic clash that has been christened ‘battle of the greens’, AC

The entire Congolese community living in Kenya will turn up for the Gor Mahia versus AC Leopards CAF Champions League match on Sunday 15th March.

More interesting is that the Congolese embassy in Nairobi until Tuesday had no idea the match was on let alone their team coming to Kenya.

Despite a much celebrated kickoff of the Kenya Premier League over the weekend, details are now emerging that the league may have used ineligible match officials some of whom had been suspended, Standard Sports can now reveal. An irate Football Kenya Federation head of Technical Committee Elli Mukolwe poured cold water to the much hyped opening weekend of the league saying that most of the referees used were of substantial standards.

Kenya’s representatives to the CAF Champions League Gor Mahia will leave for Madagascar on Saturday 28th February for their return leg match against Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale Sport (CNaPS) of Madagascar.

The Kenyan international says he knows Coach Zdravko very well and will be ready to play under him once again

We do not want to lose sponsors, we do not want to lose the precious branding opportunity that we have in terms of broadcast and we must stand to be heard.”

Celebrated Croatian coach Zdravko Logarusic will be offered a one year deal at former football giants AFC Leopards, Standard Sports can now authoritatively reveal.

Former football manager Peter Kenneth has distanced himself with rumors that he had been appointed chairman of a purported caretaker committee formed by the government.

Confirming to Standard Sports, Gor Mahia FC Organizing Secretary Mr. David Kilo said the team arrived in one batch.

Organizers of the highly billed Kenya Premier League curtain raiser DSTV Super Cup scheduled to take place on Wednesday 11th February 2015 are confident the match will take place despite a stern admonition from Football Kenya Federation warning of dire consequences to any party or parties involved in the planning and execution.

Observers see this as an intense move to force clubs in Kenya to toe the line of FKF in the wake of tough administrative battles that have lately graced Kenyan sports pages

Gor Mahia seemed to have dug its own grave as far as the federation is concerned hence the comeback from the FKF

This comes in the wake of reports that KPL may after all decide to reinstate Nairobi City Stars and Nakuru All Stars back to the league

Even without clarity on the top tier football league, under a week before Football Kenya Federation’s announced kickoff and two weeks before that of Kenya Premier League, top football referees have been summoned to attend the Physical Endurance Test

Even without clarity on the top tier football league, under a week before Football Kenya Federation’s announced kickoff and two weeks before that of Kenya Premier League, top football referees have been summoned to attend the Physical Endurance Test.

As confusion reigns over name, modality and authorities to take charge ahead of this year’s top tier football league, Nakumatt FC have confirmed that they will play nowhere else apart from the top league.

Gor Mahia tormentors-In-Chief Power Dynamos of Zambia have lined up a series of more local friendly matches this week before they leave for Sudan.

Kenya Premier League champions Gor Mahia are considering of dropping Ugandan defender...

According to club Assistant Secretary General Ronald Ngala, there are high hopes Kagere may sign for the 14 time champions.

The only asset that the club has continually boasted of for years is its mammoth following of a fan base.

Latest developments in local football are frightening. When I wrote here last week that the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) was the most likely to lose in its battle with Football Kenya Federation (FKF), I didn’t imagine the magnitude of their loss.

The custodian of local football, the Football Kenya Federation, under the eminent leadership of President Sam Nyamweya, has proposed that the premier league be expanded to 18 clubs in 2015.

Exactly four years ago, the pain of losing loved ones still lingers among Kenyan football fans.

Exactly four years after a deadly stampede rocked Nyayo National Stadium in which eight lives were lost and several fans injured during a football match between Kenya’s oldest rivals Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards, nothing of much substance seems to have been done to improve safety and avoid future recurrence of the same in Kenyan stadia.

Kenyan Premier League (KPL) faces serious credibility issues after officials confirmed that women referees are working illegally.

So the Football Kenya Federation is considering an appeal against the one-year ban on Harambee Stars Coach Adel Amrouche? This is exactly what is conventionally referred to as reversed priority.

Reacting to my constant outrage on Cameroon in this column, a Cameroonian friend of mine sent me a tweet this week asking me to tone down on his country's poor show at the World Cup.

I’m not talking of Luis Suarez, the mischievous cannibal from Uruguay. That’s not news. He bites for a living. That’s his day job. In which competition has this Uruguayan not devoured a chunk of someone’s meat? By the way I’m not talking about Cameroon’s poor performance at the World Cup.

I’m taking a break from my daily World Cup today to talk about this other team that went to Brazil without really qualifying for the World Cup. I think you, my regular reader, also deserve a cooling break from an unpredictable World Cup that Brazil 2014 has come to be.

The 2014 World Cup in Brazil is revealing two things. That we have been blinded for a long time to believe that the SI unit of football is Europe.

The English Premier is the best football league in the world. I’m at pains to admit that! Anyway, what makes the English Premier League the best in the world goes far more than its organisation.

England, the cocky England, have been knocked out. Defending champions Spain are out. Italy is on the brink of an unexpected exit by the look of things. How scary can a World Cup get!

For various reasons, Africa had a huge excitement at the World Cup being staged in Brazil in 2014.

In the 2014 Fifa World Cup, Belgium presents to the world a great squad of players who have played at top level. After failing to qualify for the last two World Cup finals, Belgium seems to be making an emphatic announcement with the pedigree of the players in their squad heading to Brazil.

If clubs cannot pay coaches and players then what is this that has really grown in our football? What critiques would be keen on is how the money KPL mints from sponsors and television rights holders is used.

Gor Mahia captain and Kenya International goalkeeper Jeremy Fredericks Onyango will be making his 200th appearance for Gor Mahia on the competitive front when the club faces league giants Tusker FC today- a mega milestone for a player in the local league.

Football is a funny game, isn’t it? As a player, Francis Baraza won the KPL title with AFC Leopards in 1998 — the last time ‘Ingwe’ lifted the trophy. He would repeat the feat with Oserian FC — still playing — in 2001.