Running parallel leagues laughable

Football fans follow proceedings at the High Court on March 13, 2015 in a case involving Football Kenya Federation and Kenyan Premier League over the running of the top tier club competition in the country. FILE PHOTO | MARTIN MUKANGU |

What you need to know:

  • It is the fans who must stand up to be counted at this point in time.

The leagues are all heating up and of course we are still in a swirl. We say "the leagues" because that is the truth and since we wish not to be biased, we shall still pretend nothing is wrong at all.

Of course nothing is wrong, when order becomes hard to maintain. We as Kenyans will still thrive in disorder and do a good job of it too. We have always praised ourselves for being creative; we know we are as creative as Australopithecus but who cares? We shall praise ourselves till the end.

The disorder continues and how all those teams in the top leagues find time and grounds to play in really baffles me.

The Kenyan Premier League goes on at the same time and never seems to interfere at all with the Football Kenya Federation Premier League! Isn’t that creativity dear Kenyans?

One is left to suppose that we have taken the creativity to a level where four teams play in the same stadium at the same time but in different portals. No player bumps upon the other; the gate charges are collected in different space; the fans only watch what they feel like watching… it is amazing.

WERE FORGOTTEN

All is well. There are of course some little snags though; the teams that were relegated from the KPL last season were forgotten.

Nobody thought of fixing them in a lower cadre league to find their way up again. They were just left hanging and if they wished to play, they had no option but to arrange matches with themselves or with other non-league teams. It is very funny.

The other teams that qualified to join the top cream were also pulled into the new parallel FKF Premier League. They have been sandwiched with other lower teams whose names we are still struggling to pronounce.

At the same time, the National Super League is still hidden from our view amidst claims from the creative lot at FKF that there is “an impostor” lurking around all the National Super League teams “purporting’’ to give them fixtures for the matches.

The result of all this creativity is that the KPL had no option but to recall the teams that were relegated last year back into the top flight.

They are there and we see them losing just as they ought to. They will remain there just as it is done in basketball where teams just come back for the next season.

The main reason is that KPL does not have lower cadre leagues from whence they can promote those who qualify to the top and relegate those that are on their way out.

FKF owns those teams and shall not budge into letting them get their heads out of the smelly mud.

FKF on the other hand, has all the small fry; very many of them. And they will play as much as they like but away from any fan. They sometimes play in the game parks for all we care.

The disorder is getting murkier by the day.

ROCKING WITH LAUGHTER

Come next year, those who will have won the FKF PL crown shall go ahead and “represent” the country in the Confederation of African Football Champions League.

It will be very sweet to watch Wanambuzi Football club playing with say Esperance or Al Ahly.

When the time comes we will be rocking with laughter tinged with sadness.

These creative ladies and gentlemen are doing us proud.

It is the fans who must stand up to be counted at this point in time; the next elections are not far off and the federation knows it.

The electoral rules have been changed and delegates are still going to endorse the same people. The small teams that exist and the fictitious ones shall be revived for the purpose. We pray that the same people live long enough and work as hard as they do to tickle us with the neat disarray they have put us into.

All is well, let the clock tick and let our leagues prosper. Click the champagne glasses, even the corruption list does not scare us a bit.