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Sharuko On Saturday A VIDEO, a simple amateur recording, a boy, a simple ghetto lad, a conversation, a simple discussion about football. The setting isn’t spectacular, the background tells a story — one of poverty, one where nothing is given and everything has to be earned. But, for all its poverty, it’s a place exploding […]
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Sharuko On Saturday THE Derby Is Dead, Long Live The Derby! The memories are mind blowing, EIGHT goals one day in 1984 in a Chibuku Cup semi-final – three for the Chunga brothers, two for Max Makanza one for Edward Katsvere. They used to call him Twinkletoes. That was back in an era when TOES […]
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Sharuko On Saturday I HAVE always had an attachment with Kenyan football and it’s not because of anything special, which these Wise Men from the East, have done in this game. After all, everyone knows, with all due respect to my colleagues Collins Okinyo and Francis Gaitho, theirs isn’t a football country. It’s a beautiful nation […]
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Sharuko On Saturday SOMEHOW, fate had to call time on this beautiful romance, this extraordinary alliance, which went the full distance, when the clock struck 12 years. In our collective silence, we read his farewell message, digested every word he wrote, each of them a brutal reminder of what we were losing, after a dozen […]
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Sharuko on Saturday DURING my days in college, I used to be quite nomadic — switching from one place to another and moving from one suburb to the other. My late old man was so desperate for his kid to have a proper education and, despite the obvious challenges which a mine worker faced, he […]
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Sharuko on Saturday AS kids, growing up in a world distinctly different from the one we live in today, Western movies were a huge part of our entertainment menu. It’s like what the fantasy world of World Wrestling Entertainment is to our children today. We didn’t have the Internet, we didn’t have Netflix, we didn’t […]
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Sharuko On Saturday Yesterday, the article, which was generating the biggest interest, from readers of The Sun, the newspaper with the best daily circulation in the United Kingdom, was the one written by Martin Lipton. It claimed that Chelsea could fold in 81 days if the club keeps operating under the conditions prescribed by the […]
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Sharuko on Saturday IN a way, the Pharaohs of Egypt will always be a big part of the history of our football — the ecstasy that comes with success, the pain that comes with failure and the euphoria that comes with justice. They have a way of reminding us of who we used to be, […]
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Sharuko on Saturday SO, in a way, this is what depression feels like — the loneliness, the hopelessness, the tiredness, the emptiness. The sadness, the madness, the uselessness. The sickness, the lifelessness, the helplessness, the craziness. Nothing appears to make any sense, everything appears to make no sense at all and you drift into your […]
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Sharuko on Saturday ONCE upon a time, we were one country, one nation, one people divided by a mighty river, united by our proximity. Before that, we even shared a name, the difference being found only in our geographical location — one being in the north, the other in the South. Even now, after independence, […]
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Sharuko On Saturday AS far as I can remember, this blog doesn’t appear on Christmas Day. The reason, why I remember this, is that traditionally, I’m on leave, at this time of the year. That, around this time, I am usually with my folks, the simple people of simple lives, at home in Chakari, celebrating […]
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Sharuko on Saturday I NOW even have a romantic attachment with Dynamos and I owe it to my daughter Mimi, the beautiful rose in our garden of thorns. The one I lost, in terms of physical presence, the one I will never lose, in terms of the special bond of our spiritual, and emotional, connection. […]
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Sharuko on Saturday THERE hasn’t been much to celebrate for my good colleagues at ZIFA House this year, because it’s hard to find a rainbow of comic relief when the national game is on its deathbed. It’s difficult to find an island of refuge when you are surrounded by a raging ocean whose stormy currents […]
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Sharuko On Saturday WHO is the genius, who really keeps coming up with these amazing scripts when it comes to our football? Like, somehow, bringing Cameroon into the equation, with the Land of the Indomitable Lions, suddenly becoming the location of the sum of all our hopes, and the collection of all our fears. As […]
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Sharuko On Saturday OF course, it was coming, just like the reality the hapless Zdravko Logarusic would not only fail, but break all sorts of records in his adventure of infamy along the way. Just like the reality, Norman Mapeza had taken a huge gamble, which could backfire terribly, and leave a stain on his […]