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Sharuko On Saturday EXCEPT for the minor sideshow brought about by a controversial conversation over the colour of the tracksuits donated to CAPS United by a Good Samaritan, it was generally quiet on the domestic football front this week. Of course, I understand the frustration, among true fans of the Green Machine, on the occasions […]

Sharuko On Saturday FOR many fans, it was the day African football finally came of age. This was our finest hour, the moment our beautiful game arrived on the gates of the palace where greatness resides. The day world football started counting us as part of the family, acknowledging our transformation from being punching bags […]

Sharuko On Saturday THE huge banner carried a simple yet very powerful, and even poetic, message of love – ‘TAUYA KUZOONA TAUYA’. At the fortress called Vietnam, the stand which used to represent the bastion of loyalty to the Dynamos badge, the banner became a common sight. For about two to three years, it flew […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]