NAIROBI'Z BLOGAZINE: A PEEP INTO GOR MAHIA’S WINNER’S BASH

GINI WASEKAO

emember last season. I do! Being a k’ogalo fan, the league chase was finely balanced on a needle point going into the final day of the season. Big men, big girls crying over football; that’s just the passion of football. Thika United did not bother to console Gor players, despite sharing the same sponsor.

But this week, we danced all over Thika streets- a contrast to last season. With our large bands of supporters; the Green Army went wild with celebration. We beat Thika United 2-1 at their home ground; to remind them that last season was still fresh in our minds and we had come back for revenge.

As I write this; to many of us Gor Mahia fans, it has ceased to be a matter of speculation or conjecture. Let me repeat this so that our bitter “shemeji” rivals may hear us; “Gor Mahia has won the Kenya Premier League title.”

What we await is confirmation of this fact when the tournament officially ends. After 18 years of waiting, many K’ogalo fans still can’t believe that the team has clinched the trophy.

Anil Bakari, writing for The Standard on Monday reckons that, now, with the trophy firmly in their armpit, what Gor fans are waiting for is the final whistle and the party begins.

The celebrations are going to be big. Sorry in Luo-pean, stupendous is the right word for a team and fans that ooze swag. From the alleys of Kibera and Nyamsaria slums, to the streets of Nairobi, K’ogalo fans will party hard.

Let’s begin from the start. We are getting way ahead of ourselves here! In that last match will certainly be played as a formality, Gor fans will fill the stadium to the brim.

Dressed in green t-shirts and carrying all manner of paraphernalia that include vuvuzelas and omens, the staunch followers will warm the stadium stands with their cheers and jeers as Gor plays in the match; which soothsayers (mostly Ingwe fans) have predicted they will not win.

Nevertheless, the trophy will be presented to the club amid tears, hearty claps and salutes from K’ogalo Army.

The brigade will, thereafter pour onto the roads of Nairobi, led by the Major General Jaro Soja; blocking traffic as they blow vuvuzelas silly, with anti-riot police keeping guard.

Of course, the officers will not be there to cheer them on, but they will get some work and lots of work.

Let us give credit where it is due, some Gor fans in the heat of ecstasy will resort to harassing motorists and looting from shops as it always happens. But those will be a few goons, who must be punished.

Good Gor fans, sources have intimated, are planning what will turn out to be the biggest “winners bash” ever to be held in the sports circles.

The fans are currently dusting their Range Rover vehicles, Hammers and Mercedes Benzes; which will take part in the celebration fit for kings.

Shhhhhh! Word has it that they will also throw in a chopper and each player dressed in white suit; will at some point ride on a horse. It promises to be scintillating, but let us wait and see.