Broke clubs reflection of inept running of football

What you need to know:

  • If this was Gor Mahia suffering like this, what happens in the other small teams in KPL? For those who head FKF; don’t you think such issues show just how inept you are?
  • We can ask thousands of questions but the silence from you is speaking very loudly!

It is now official. All Kenyan teams are broke and are begging with worn out knitted bowls - they can’t even afford begging bowls - in all offices in the land.

It will not be long before we see them on every street corner displacing our tramps. We have inveighed, we have reasoned, we have cajoled, God knows we have done all there is to sensitise Kenyans on the plight of our football; especially to do with finances but we seem to be hitting brick walls with our heads. We are moving backwards.

Just what hit us? When we thought we were out of the doldrums and that our sports were taking shape; we are again thrust in the whirlwind.

We are rolling faster and we cannot make the whole thing stop. We are in a storm and our fear is that some foreigners must be rocking with laughter when they read about our plight. Foreign laughter is the most annoying thing we can behold.

Last week, one of Kenya’s most popular team, Gor Mahia was to travel to South Africa for the return leg of the Caf Confederation Cup play-off.

The travelling arrangements were very shambolic to say the least. There were players who could not even get visas to travel to South Africa.

We have tried to follow up the reason for such bad tidings but we seem not to get a clear picture. The Football Association was eerily quiet about the matter. Somehow this did not bother them at all.

It must have been a club affair and that is far below their heavenly gaze. The team, penniless as it now proves, had to go knocking at political doors to survive.

We wish to see the knuckles of the officials just to prove to you dear reader that those people knocked doors with the loudest bangs you could imagine.

Their knuckles are all sour from the loud efforts.

In the end, the Nairobi Governor - with an acute nose for publicity - listened to them and rescued their situation.

K’Ogalo was finally able to fly to South Africa and engage SuperSport in the important match. They were beaten 2-1 for a 2-2 aggregate score but to progress on the away goal rule.

Considering the circumstances, one must laud the team.

Here are players whose salaries are not regular; here is the cream of our youth that needs to be mentored for greater things but they just could not afford to travel to South Africa; here they are and they fought against all odds to qualify for the group stages.

What more could they achieve with help? How are they going to travel for the group stage matches? Will they still have to beg from other counties? Is there nothing the gods of football in this land can do? Is there no balm in Gilead?

If this was Gor Mahia suffering like this, what happens in the other small teams in KPL? For those who head FKF; don’t you think such issues show just how inept you are?

We can ask thousands of questions but the silence from you is speaking very loudly!