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How (Not) to Watch the Beautiful Game

November 23rd, 2022 | 4 min read

By Musembi wa Ndaita

Growing up Monday mornings were either a delight or a dread depending on which football — what a minority of the world calls soccer — team you supported. If your team had lost over the weekend, you were in for much kuchongolewa at school. The early 2000s English Premier League seasons were, as we would say in Nairobi, moto-moto. Alex Ferguson was at the height of his game but so was Arsène Wenger. Every weekend each ascended to either Old Trafford or Highbury with a fresh bag of tricks.

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Musembi wa Ndaita

Musembi wa Ndaita is a writer and campus minister with the Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO) at the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary (MAR), Musembi was longlisted in the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Africology, In the Sands of Time, the Other Side of Hope, Star Newspaper, and Mere Orthodoxy.

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