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Robson Sharuko on Saturday: B for Barbourfields, B for Bramall Lane, B for...
THERE’S something romantic about Bramall Lane — just like Anfield, it has its own stand called the Kop, where the most passionate fans of Sheffield United are found. You feel the raw outpouring of love...
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Robson Sharuko on Saturday: If this adventure has shaken me or broken me in...
YESTERDAY, I marked 27 years of service to this newspaper — just another little statistic in the 128-year history of this media beast which has cast its spell across this country for over a century....
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For us, just like the Kenyans in 2008, this all felt like our Obama moment
THE Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi was absolutely rocking, on that winter day on June 14, 2008, with an estimated 28 000 fans of Kenya’s Harambee Stars in full voice.
View ArticleJust like that Buddie advert, football is a game inspired to change our world
THERE is nothing that gives a blogger wings than knowing that somehow, somewhere your work provided the foundation, which just like that classic Buddie advert, inspired to change someone’s world.
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Robson Sharuko on Saturday
And they asked, isn’t he that poor boy from Norton, isn’t his mother’s name Janet, isn’t his brother called Walter? JUST like Knowledge Musona and Khama Billiat today, he was 29 when he finally...
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Robson Sharuko on Saturday
‘When I see the nine, I think of the lepers our Saviour cleansed, and nine out of the 10 didn’t even thank Him’ IF I’m not watching or writing about sport, it’s possible I will be listening to music...
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Not since Fresh Prince of Bel Air kept seducing our sisters into fantasy has...
THERE are moments in life that remain frozen in memory, which stubbornly defy time and the changing seasons and simply refuse to fade away.
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Robson Sharuko on Saturday: Don’t worry Charlie, it’s the same game that also...
HAD he lived to this day, Gabriel Hanot would have celebrated his 130th birthday last month on November 6. It’s not a wild wish since Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment lived to the age of 122 years 164 days...
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The King we got, the King we deserved, the King we should collectively be...
TOMORROW I will turn 50 and, if I was as rich as Neymar, I would have thrown a wild party, and invited Rihaana, who turns 32 on Thursday, to provide music for the occasion.
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After 20 years, I guess, it’s just not easy to say, thank you and goodbye
THERE are things that simply blow you away, like reading about the enduring impact you have made on other people’s lives, through simply doing your work.
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How could we forget that tears are still flowing all over heaven?
Sharuko on Saturday ERIC CLAPTON will turn 75, just a day after the scheduled 2021 AFCON qualifier between the Warriors and the Desert Foxes, that is if it goes ahead as scheduled, on the neutral...
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Sharuko on Saturday: Some people think football is a matter of life and...
DESERTED streets, deserted schools, deserted pubs, deserted churches, deserted stadiums and deserted parks, just like a scene borrowed from those post-apocalyptic movies. Big cities reduced into ghost...
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Sharuko on Saturday
In Zororo’s silence, I still hear his voice, in his loneliness, I feel his company and in his absence, I feel his presence I DID NoT know Zororo Makamba, never spoke to him, never met him and never...
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Fabisch’s Dream Team, like Drogba’s Elephants, were the shining symbol of...
Fabisch’s Dream Team, like Drogba’s Elephants, were the shining symbol of sporting immortality. THE three-hour road trip took us north, past villages still bearing the scars of war, past villagers...
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There will always be one Joel Shambo, a genius, the superstar from the heavens
Without Jubilee, as if he never lived among us, as if he never took us to places where angels live, transforming fantasy into reality, dragging us into football’s wonderland, with his flicks, with his...
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When he left, their rivals changed DeMbare’s nickname from ‘Haina Ngozi’, to...
Sharuko On Saturday MAYBE, in a way, they were just made for each other. That’s why, maybe, the club won a league championship, in the very year he was born, as if to welcome him into this crazy world....
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They dismiss Bruce as a classic opportunist, a chancer, whose heart was never...
Sharuko On Saturday THERE is a constituency, including some desktop spin doctors, which believes it’s a romance whose roots were with the Dream Team — a product of a combination of both rejection and...
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Bombs, slaves, a dark past, for Liverpool, this one is different and very,...
Sharuko on Saturday IT’S a pity Augustine Moyo, the greatest daredevil I have had the privilege to know and befriend, won’t be there when it finally happens. A larger-than-life character, who lived on...
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Happy birthday my captain, 30 years on, you’re still smiling, still the great...
Sharuko On Saturday FOR Peter Ndlovu, it was the beginning of immortality — the age he finally dragged his country over the line after successive generations of Warriors had failed to clear the final...
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And, then, Arsene Wenger came along and football has never been the same
Sharuko On Saturday ON August 30, 2002, Arsenal’s revolution swept English football into a new world when the Gunners became the first club to field nine black players in their starting XI. Captain...
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