Gor is at war, the mass exit of our foot soldiers spells doom 

‘Get there the fastest with the mostest’. This quote, credited to General Nathan Bedford Forrest, has reportedly marked one of the key lessons in nearly all military academies the world over.

Forrest was one of the generals of the Confederates army as they took on the United States Army in the American Civil War.

He is said to have never read a single military book but was a born genius when it came to strategy. Now one would ask how is this even connected to Gor Mahia? My answer?

It is very much connected to Gor Mahia.

In effect, what this strategy espouses is that in a war, you have to move the biggest number of your cavalry in the fastest possible manner to where the battle is joined.

By its very nature, the game of football is war, and as Gor Mahia we cannot run away from this reality.

Our troops are our players and our generals are the management and the technical bench. When they all work in harmony, we are assured of cutting the enemy dead at the slightest opportunity. But are we?

Reports emanating from the club are not rosy at all and should leave everyone who calls himself or herself a Gor Mahia follower to be concerned. I am talking of the new malaise running loose at the club in the name of player hemorrhage. 

It is sad that every day you open the newspaper or listen to sports news on any of the electronic media, the story is how Gor players are leaving the club.

And not just players but quality players. It looks like any club in this country- and more recently in Tanzania- with a coin to spare is heading to Gor Mahia to shop for a player or two.

So much so that some stone hearted fellows are now referring to us as the Gor Mahia Supermarket, meaning that we are on a selling spree.

Don’t get me wrong. I am all for the betterment of players’ welfare and far be it removed from me to give an evil eye to a player who moves from Gor Mahia- or any other club for that matter- when an opportunity to better themselves come knocking.

What I am opposed to is the cavalier attitude with which those in charge are treating this matter of life and death.

We are priming to take on Africa’s best in the continental campaign in 2021 and here we are behaving as if we are waiting for some village tournament where the local MCA will present the diadem to the winning team.

For heavens sake we are in 2020 and ‘players come and go’ is so ancient and lame a comeback when faced with facts. I read somewhere on the net that coach Steven Pollack has raised concerns about the situation.

I cannot confirm the veracity of the statements attributed to the tactician but I would not be surprised if indeed the good man said this. I am yet to hear of any notable player heading to Gor Mahia even as our quality players hightail it to other clubs.

As I have said before, it looks like resting on our laurels is the new pastime in town for Gor Mahia.

We state with the authority of a minister of the word of God that we won the Nelson Mandela Cup in 1987 and it seems we have achieved all that there is ever to be achieved and now we can sit east as we wait for the Second Coming. Weird!