One trophy taken, two more coming!

Ladies and gentlemen, I can see some good tidings in the horizon. I see a treble. Yes, a treble!

Three trophies, spic and span, are set to be delivered to Gor Mahia’s cabinet. And then we can say 2015 was a very good year.

After the fairy tale run in the SportPesa Premier League where we are on the cusp of lifting it unbeaten, we have made good progress in the GOtv Shield and from the impressive performance the boys staged in Kisumu last Saturday to thrash the upstarts Muhoroni Youth 3-0 in the KPL Top 8 tournament, I might as well say with Oscar winning actress Lupita Nyong’o that my dreams are valid.

The Muhoroni match once again showed the mental strength of the Gor Mahia squad.

With the sugar millers having locked the game with at times not very legit playing style, K’Ogalo kept taking the battle to the opponents time and again.

GOR FAVOURED

Somehow, the opponents were deceived that the 12 match unbeaten record they held coming into the match would intimidate Gor.

But then again, they seem to have forgotten to read the memo - that Gor had an almost 30 match unbeaten record in local football.

When finally Gor turned the tide, things got pretty tough for Muhoroni. A 40 kilometre journey back home was the longest the sugar men have ever undertaken.

Coming from that match, I was riled by a comment attributed to the Muhoroni coach Paul Nkata who insinuated that Gor were favoured by the referee.

“Whenever you are playing Gor you must be prepared to play against 13 players. Today the boys really tried but they got frustrated at some point because the referee wasn’t making the right calls. Generally, I think we were just unlucky today,” Nkata said.

What balderdash! If there was any frustration Muhoroni went through then it was the flowing football Gor Mahia played.

Frustratingly, this idea of Gor being favoured by referees seems to be the redoubt of teams that can’t measure up to our standard of play.

BOARDROOM DECISION
Chief peddler of this rumour is none other than my erstwhile friend Peter Leftie who in his article last week repeated the baseless claims and even went ahead to claim that it was “foreigners” who lifted the league.

The one moment I remember we were awarded a match via a boardroom decision was when AFC Leopards yobs brought the Mashemeji derby to a premature end.

At Gor Mahia we never wanted that boardroom decision and as I told another Ingwe diehard Fred Lutta on Saturday we are ready for a rematch even tomorrow at a stadium of AFC’s choice. Then beat them fair and square!