It’s okay AFC, do not discolour your spots, you lost to a superior team

Last week was a week and a half. Yes, it was a week that was. Also, the week of the long knives for my alter ego Beryl for real change, during her sojourn in the land of murky endeavours.

For K’Ogalo, the week started promisingly with last Sunday’s well deserved Derby win, then the midweek win over Chemelil that catapulted us to the Kenyan Premier League summit and ended with the win on Sunday over bogey team Nzoia. We are now 2 points clear of the second placed team and a whopping 10 points past the Leopards! The refrain from the song We are marching to Zion comes to mind, only that we are Marching to the Okombe!!

My Sister Monica, I hope that you have disembarked from the hiding perch you hoisted yourself to following the defeat at the hands of K’Ogalo. I know you espoused so many reasons as to why you lost the Derby. But you know what Monica? Take heart. At least you lost to a better and more superior team! And we say in Luo “thum onindo”, meaning the dance continues another day. Yes, there shall be the next Derby many moons from now and rather than Ingwe avenging the loss as you posited last week, I can prophesy, like the real prophets of yore, that wembe itakuwa ni ile ile, ya kunyoa Ingwe (it will be the same dose to the Leopards). In that next Derby, Vindu Vichenjanga Tawe – things will not change!

I had written how fan match attendance can be a crucial act of self-sponsorship to the two community clubs K’Ogalo and Ingwe. Though the stadium was not full, an estimated 7,000 fans thronged the venue. I hear that Leopards grossed in about 2.5m Shillings. Now imagine if it was full house – 10,000 or 15,000 strong and happening week in week out?

Speaking of which, it’s a high time the two clubs have their own stadia. I know Gor are laying grounds for building one and Leopards have talked about it. If it may help, the two can join hands in a share percentage basis and do one stadium. The Milan City teams of AC Milan and Inter Milan share one stadium, the San Siro. And all that is required is for the fixture organisers to ensure that matches involving the two clubs do not happen on the same day. Which is possible given that world over, football fixtures are usually over two days. And in this case K’Ogalo can take one day while Ingwe goes on the next. After all we are Mashemeji.