Unlucky Luc Eymael blames juju for his sacking

Eymael said the two officials together with some members of the technical bench accompanied a stranger who took photos of some players for unknown reasons the night before the match without telling him.

 With only seven Kenyan Premier League matches to go, Ingwe are seventh on the league with 32 points having lost seven matches, won eight with a similar number of draws.

But footie legend Joe Kadenge has scoffed at the office for what he terms as interference with the playing unit.

 “What has the coach done to deserve such treatment? It was not fair; I think there’s something that people don’t know about in AFC Leopards,” Kadenge said.

 “What about the office bearers, are they together? At times officials can make things worse than better. This is a football club and all solutions lie on the pitch or entirely with the players, not boardrooms,” explained Kadenge.

In the last five matches AFC have only managed five points.

 Cracks have also emerged in the club’s top management over what a section of the fans describe as inter-clan wrangles and rivalries.

But club chairman Allan Kasavuli says he is focused on running the club despite the political undertones created by ‘some people.’

 As things spiral out of hand some vocal club fans took it to the social media to express their concerns after James Nandwa was hired as the new coach. Maurice Shisya, an Ingwe fan wondered on Facebook about the coach’s fate: “Sasa juu coaches wote ni wa Kisa, mtaanza tena eti ‘abashisa’ wanaaribu team?”

Kevin Mukhoka wrote, “Kisaland has talented footballers too so team tunataka wakisa tupu.. hata chinjili arudi ni jirani.”

But the situation was made even worse by Samuel Wanga’s comment: “hehehehe mara hii omushisa ni coach......pia sisi wacha tukule...no helmet.”

 But in a swift rejoinder, Kasavuli dismissed such sentiments as mere propaganda and instead called upon all AFC fans to work as a team.

 “We are putting down structures including an office from where we will run our affairs. My target is to register two million members countrywide,” he said.

 But some branch officials on the other hand have faulted Ingwe’s fans for the club. Speaking on grounds of anonymity, a chairman of a Nairobi-based branch accused fellow fans of sowing hatred amongst the team officials and players.

“The club suffers from lack of unity. We have concentrated on clan rivalry naming every player and official according to their tribe or worse still clan,” he said.

 Well, AFC Leopards fraternity needs to learn from William Shakespeare’s words that, “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”