March 7, 2017: Stewart Hall's raw post-match outburst after AFC Leopards' 3-0 loss to Gor Mahia still resonates today.
It's throwback time! Cast your minds back to March 7, 2017, a day that remains etched in the annals of Kenyan football history.
A packed Nyayo National Stadium bore witness to a sensational Gor Mahia triumph over AFC Leopards, a match that was predicted to be a neck-to-neck showdown but turned out to be an utterly one-sided spectacle.
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In what ended in a 3-0 thumping, Gor Mahia, driven by goals from Meddie Kagere, George Odhiambo, and Timothy Otieno, demonstrated sheer dominance over their long-standing rivals, the AFC Leopards.
But it was not just the scoreline that stole headlines that evening.Stewart Hall, the then head coach of AFC Leopards, let his emotions spill in a raw, unfiltered post-match interview that is still talked about today.
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"As a coach I’ve never been beaten by three goals in my whole career so I don’t like the feeling," Hall began, his voice thick with frustration. "That was a very, very poor performance."
His scathing analysis did not stop there. "If you can’t pass the ball ten yards towards your players and you don’t win the 50-50s in the headers then you got a big problem. They (Gor Mahia) won all the 50-50s, they won all the headers that mattered, the passing were better than us they were brighter and sharper than us. We were terrible; we were terrible, there is no excuse for that," he continued, with an air of disbelief.
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However, what really jolted everyone was his explosive analogy: "If we were an electronic thing I think you should say something took the battery out. We shit ourselves, we absolutely shit ourselves, because we couldn’t handle the occasion. We couldn’t handle the first 15 minutes, in the first 15 minutes when we were running like scared rabbits they got on top of the game, physically, mentally, everything.”
This surprising outburst might be attributed to the inexperience in his squad, as the majority of AFC Leopards' lineup had never tasted the intensity of this derby.
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In stark contrast, Gor Mahia had seasoned derby veterans on the field, save for Wellington Ochieng’ and Kenneth Muguna.