He cannot continue ‘moonlighting’ between coaching Gor Mahia and Harambee Stars.
The poor show by Gor Mahia today against AFC Leopards should be enough to tell him that all is not well in his house.
He may pretend that football is about losing and winning but that will not pacify the Kogalo fans who were humiliated today by the 3-0 walloping by Ingwe.
From the very start of the game, you could see that all was not well on Kogalo’s fans. The Ingwe fans on the other hand were upbeat and behaved like they knew something that the rest of us did not know. They were overconfident and kept taunting the Kogalo fans even before the game could start.
Kogalo fans cannot claim that the referee and linesmen favoured Ingwe in any way. Kogalo was beaten hands down and they could not even marshal the strength to hit back even when provoked to the extreme by Ingwe fans.
Looking at Kogalo fans today, you would realize that something was amiss; they were not as exuberant as they always are. Today, I give credit to the Kogalo fans that despite extreme provocation by the Ingwe fans, they were very restraint. This was unlike Kogalo fans of yester years.
The stadia management seems not to have learnt any lessons from crowd trouble in previous matches. How could they allow the fans of the two clubs to sit next to each other at the centre half of the terraces, with nothing to keep them apart? They need to have a buffer zone between the fans of the two clubs when they play at Nyayo stadium.
Had it not been that the Kogalo fans were restrained today, we would be talking of another football tragedy today. The few officers who were there could not help to control the crowd!
The new AFC coach Jan Koops
Kogalo fans in a previous match. (Courtesy of michezoafrika.com)
needs to be congratulated for the change that he has brought in the team. The team played extremely well in all departments. They completely outshone Gor Mahia. The Gor technical bench has a lot of head-breaking to do.
Today’s results show that there is a big problem in the team. Some people were heard saying that it is the coach who needs to go while others are of the opinion that it is the whole playing unit that needs to go. They are saying that even AFC did away with most of their players early in the season and they have been able to rebuild the team to a formidable side.
I am not sure what the Gor officials are going to do about the team. Already, there are those who are calling for the resignation of Chairman Ambrose Rachier since he is vying for the chairmanship of the eagerly awaited elections for the national body. This is going to give his critics ammunition with which to fight him.
I personally doubt whether the fact that Rachier wants to be a national football official is a problem. The team is much bigger than an official. The rest of the officials can take care of the affairs of the club while he is busy campaigning. After all, the elections are just a one time affair. Asking him not to run for that office would be infringing on his constitutional right to vie for any office he wishes in this country.
But that is not to excuse Rachier from the poor performance of the club. He cannot keep on yapping about the good performance of the club the last two years. That is water under the bridge. By now he should have known the psychology of football fans that they demand spectacular results now and now and not promises of a better tomorrow.
So for him too, I think the die is cast. I don’t know how he will wriggle himself out of this dicey situation.
Just to understand how football fans’ support can be fluid, a group of Kogalo fans were seen buying shirts at the open air market outside City stadium to put on top of their Kogalo-branded t-shirts to hide the fact that they are Kogalo fans. Just because they were beaten. Had the results ended with a win for Kogalo, they would have been all over the place with their vuvuzelas.
But the vuvuzelas are silent for now. Maybe until Kogalo wins again. This is not guaranteed, what with the poor form of the club currently.
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