Football feuds bode tough times for the local game

Many times we have ranted in this column, we have cajoled, we have subtly insulted, we have beseeched...god knows how many times we have prayed with lips of clay for this agony to pass us.

It seems we are knocking our heads on brick walls but we shall never stop this folly of calling them to attention. Things must get better and they will if we bolster our will and press on.

The lords of football in this country are still persisting in their power feuds and to court everyone is rushing.

Underhand deals are on the way for the year 2020 when those in the fringes plan to take over the helm for their stomachs’ sake.

Those in office are also gearing up to stay in their place and continue with the mismanagement they love most.

It is so sweet being there that they wish death to those that might take over their laurels.

Twenty-twenty seems too far away for us mortals whose only sin is to love football. But it is too close for those that wish to take office or retain office.

We are the pawns and the poor players and coaches of our teams and all those that may benefit from the proceeds of football are the ground upon which they trample.

Machakos was a very saddening place last week when we watched a poorly assembled Harambee Stars team being whipped at home by the small nation of Swaziland.

It was almost comic but we do hope the new coach of the Stars got the message. This is Kenya and what you see is not what it really is.

League matches were disrupted to hold the two hastily arranged international friendlies for Harambee Stars and all plans of the Kenyan Premier league (KPL) were put on hold so that the national team would be humiliated in front of us all.

One can only pity the players that were hauled into Machakos to be made fun of. At the same time the folly of banning one Sam Nyamweya by Football Kenya Federation (FKF) was jeered at by the high court. We had told off FKF about that matter a year ago but they are too proud to see reason.

At the same time, the KPL chief executive Jack Oguda took the FKF president Nick Mwendwa to court accusing him of failing to “follow the law”. This is a sign that all is not well.

Mwendwa was left frustrated and rather unhappy. He remarked in a startling high pitch that KPL has hijacked football in this country.

Then he gave a rather eerie statement: “if you keep quarrelling with your wife, at some point the only option is separation or divorce”. The only option were actually two in the end.

The divorce or separation is well and good but it will be murky.

As they keep scheming and pouring bucketfuls' of manure on each other, our football is sinking into the mire of incompetence as we witnessed last week when Swaziland came calling.

It can only get worse but all these people must massage their own egos so that we get out of this tight impasse.