Mathare United custodian Bryne Omondi has petitioned football stakeholders to join hands and save the 2008 champions the shame of dishing the third walkover in the Football Kenya Federation Premier League.Mathare are just a walkover away from booking and early ticket to the National Super League after failing to travel to Kericho where they are supposed to face four-time Kenyan champions Ulinzi Stars.Last weekend, Mathare staged a now show at the Kasarani Annex, a venue that was to host their home game against the 2019 Cup winners Bandari who benefited freebies in three points and two goals. Akwana: I could not continue coaching hungry Mathare playersOmondi who joined the slum boys shortly after the season began albeit on loan from Posta Rangers regretted that a club of Mathare’s calibre was staring at the possibility of sinking due to lack of finances.”If they is something that needs to be done to save the club then it should be as soon as possible. The players have always been ready to fight on the pitch and it’s time the club and the football family at large does the needful,” he said.Further, the former Tusker shot stopper stressed on the need for the competition to be revamped in a bid to regain its fast fading glory.The dreadlocked goalkeeper was quick to observe that the league was slowly slithering to its deathbed and concerted efforts from all sectors will help revive it.”More than half a dozen of the teams in the league are struggling to make ends meet. The problem is also rampant in the lower tiers and the women’s league. It’s time the conversation around Kenyan football and funding was discussed before the start of every season, ” he said.
