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Mathare United: Bob Munro, shine on your way, fly away home

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Mathare United founder Bob Munro greets his players after a past league match. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Had Robert Donald Munro not made that maiden trip to Mathare Slums in 1987, most football players today from Eastlands would be rotting in jail, homeless, or perhaps, dead.

Those days, going to school was not a priority, but surviving was. It was a luxury not many from this area wanted to partake.

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