Give the refs a break, mess in Kenyan game is not their fault

What you need to know:

  • They have forgotten the wrangles for supremacy that is still simmering underneath. They do not see the burning coals that the haters of football are throwing into the concealed fireplace while laughing like evil cartoon characters.
  • Football is becoming very wicked in this country and those with no stomachs to take it must run away as fast as their legs can take them - we Kenyans are well known internationally for long distance running! We can even run away from problems.
  • Since the sabotage of the KPL began last year, the referees have been the worst affected people in this country and nobody seems to care. There are two leagues in the top-most echelon and they are forced to disregard one or else be suspended from “all footballing activities”.

It is usually considered very bad manners to read other people’s letters. In fact it is a scary weakness that needs some psychiatrist to help you get over.

I am the culprit of this misnomer since three days ago, I had to read a letter from Football Kenya Federation to the chairman of Kenya Premier League Ambrose Rachier.
I am now honestly seeking a psychiatrist to help me get through the ordeal and laugh as loud as I can on some medical couch. That shall cure me for sure!

Any Kenyan shrink should contact me immediately, and I am ready to laugh as hard as I can; hoping the laughter may save Kenyan football. Since the quagmire that has given us two leagues running parallel to each other, many football lovers in Kenya settled down to watch and cheer their teams to victory.

They have forgotten the wrangles for supremacy that is still simmering underneath. They do not see the burning coals that the haters of football are throwing into the concealed fireplace while laughing like evil cartoon characters.

I usually imagine them worked up and seething with rage at court decisions in some dark room filled with an acute stench of burning rubber mixed with sandal wood illegally acquired from some gazetted forest land near Mount Kenya!  

See them in this scenario dear Kenyan. They are half naked and chanting incantations which go like: “poiuytrewqahiiil” that unreadable gibberish is supposed to possess a lot of magical power that can scuttle all football in this country. It hasn’t worked yet but believe it or not, their faith is so strong such that it shall eventually come to pass!

WICKED

Football is becoming very wicked in this country and those with no stomachs to take it must run away as fast as their legs can take them - we Kenyans are well known internationally for long distance running! We can even run away from problems. But I digress. I was talking about an open letter which was handed to the press by FKF. It is duly signed by the chairman and the bone of contention is the reinstatement of the Referees Appointment Committee (RAC).

Since the sabotage of the KPL began last year, the referees have been the worst affected people in this country and nobody seems to care. There are two leagues in the top-most echelon and they are forced to disregard one or else be suspended from “all footballing activities”.

This enforced sadness has caused some stir in the Kenya premier league; the level of officiating is somehow questionable and the letter I allude to pretends to tackle this situation. Those who have locked out the services of referees is the same person who feels jilted because a meeting he called to salvage the impasse, was ignored by the victims of his ban!

There is no need for a meeting and those concerned need not waste time to meet.

It is granted that the problem is created and the creators must do the necessary to make things move instead of publicising their annoying letters and making us skip meals from disgust.
We acknowledge that FKF is the baba na mama of football in this country; we admit on our knees that they can kill or nurture our football. All the same we beseech the group of men and women to let us breathe even for a second!

 Their irritating letter ends thus: “Without prejudice.” We wish to end ours on the same note: Without prejudice.