Robert Madoi

This should not come as a vulgar surprise. What should worry us all is how, if any, we have planned for forthcoming Olympic track events shorn of the presence of Cheptegei and, quite possibly...

While unionisation is undoubtedly the best pathway to improving the rights and working conditions of players, previous attempts, at least in the rugby ranks, have proved fruitless.

When he took a sadistic pleasure in SC Villa’s spectacular failure to fill up even a single stand at the Mandela National Stadium in Namboole, it seemed not just possible but perhaps inevitable that Moses Muhangi would court controversy.

This is precisely how European club football repeatedly manages to steal a march on its second cousin, the much-maligned Uganda Premier League.

The Kitara FC forward went into the match in a rich vein of form after scoring two in two during club continental engagements.

Last week, a trip to the tyre clinic was all but inevitable after a nail deflated the rear tyre of my car. This typically happens when a few showers sweep nails from the construction sites dotting the capital into the potholes that remain in abundance.

The TV camera panned to capture the reaction of the home crowd at Nakivubo. Viewers, like your humble columnist, were met with a shot of a stand with a ghostly presence.

On the flight back to the Gabonese capital, a meat market in Oyem where vermin was unabashedly sold dominated conversations of the journalists.

For now, it appears, they will continue to pursue a pragmatic brand of football with a theological sense of conviction.

How will government absorb UCDA workers?