Kenya polls: Kenyatta family treated the Kikuyu like their serfs, now the community is revolting
About a month to the August 9, 2022 elections, a Kikuyu elder man was ushered in the offices of Enke Ltd, at the Chancery Building, uptown Nairobi, on Valley Road. Enke Ltd is one of the Kenyatta family’s flagship companies. The man had an appointment with the princely Muhoho Kenyatta,...
Different bosses, same fixation on results and the sense that something is broken at Chelsea
There have been performances like these over the years that have seen Chelsea managers, no matter how successful, dethroned by the Russian who once ran this club with little room for sentiment, so one wonders how the new regime of American private equity might be different for Thomas Tuchel. Different...
New Man City boy Haaland hops over EPL August scoring ‘curse’ with two hattricks and eight goals
He’s only been in England just over seven weeks and Erling Haaland is already rewriting the Premier League record books. On Saturday against Crystal Palace he turned the game on its head with a 19-minute hat-trick. Four days later and he had to work a bit harder for the match-ball,...
Sick of circus at Old Trafford, Man United boss Ten Hag wants to see Cristiano Ronaldo’s back
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag didn’t bite his lip during a passionate team meeting last week ahead of Monday’s 2-1 win against Liverpool. Cristiano Ronaldo was the target of some home truths during the two-hour summit, with Ten Hag reportedly ‘sick’ of the wantaway forward’s antics. According to The...
Furious Man United boss Ten Hag can’t, won’t hug flops, tells Ronaldo and Maguire to shape up or ship out
Erik ten Hag won the respect of his Manchester United players when he joined them for their gruelling run in the sun. It helped to unify the Red Devils camp and triggered a huge response in Monday’s thrilling 2-1 win over Liverpool. Furious Ten Hag cancelled the stars’ day off...
Casemiro to Man United looks like high-stakes, high-risk gamble; if it pays off United will have pulled a Homer
The Great Manchester United Transfer Tombola has spun once again and this time they’re apparently ending up with a world-class defensive midfielder. That’s good, isn’t it? Signing a world-class defensive midfielder seems like a really good idea, because Manchester United’s current options in the centre of midfield are standing out...
Should Kenyans opt for mandatory voting to correct a system that is designed to deliver kakistocracies?
What are we supposed to do when the electoral system consistently yields terrible candidates? If you’ve noticed an eerie silence coming from the direction of Kenya, it’s because many of us are struggling to believe that what the news is telling us. William Samoei Ruto, former deputy president and International...
EPL transfers: Analysts say Arsenal manager Arteta is replicating Guardiola’s Man City script at Emirates
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta’s plan for the remaining weeks of the summer transfer window bears plenty of similarities to Pep Guardiola’s approach during his early years in charge of Manchester City. Arteta has worked tirelessly to improve his squad in the months since the end of the previous campaign, with...
English Premier League set for bizarre ‘crisis club derby’ as winless Liverpool faces Man United
Really, it’s Graeme Souness we feel sorry for. Just a day after he finally got his Men’s Game for Burly Men back it was once again cruelly snatched from him as Our League – our glorious league – was forced to endure the shameful sight of a dastardly foreign making...
Rising armed violence and killings blot further South Africa’s sullied image as police left helpless
A month ago, 16 people died when more than 130 bullets were fired at the Mdlalose Tavern in Nomzamo Park informal settlement in Soweto, Johannesburg. Two weeks ago, eight women were raped, some of them several times, allegedly by nearly 20 illegal miners who attacked a group filming a music...
