Dear Tomas Trucha, if the smoke is too much, get out of the kitchen

If Tomas Trucha, the newly appointed AFC Leopards coach, didn't fully comprehend the magnitude of what awaited him at the den, as portrayed in his latest statement, before signing those papers, then it's tragic.

Nonetheless, here's the memo for him.

Dear Trucha, before you agreed to be part of a system your predecessor Tom Juma sensationally alleged was beset with some faceless characters called "cartels" who made things happen, but for the worst, you ought to have known how deprived the club was sporting-wise and the seething rage among fans.

Prior to your unceremonious second coming, Trucha, the Leopards had endured an excruciating six-match winless streak that had the loyal and ever-supportive fanbase boiling from within. The whole situation was a ticking time bomb.

Over that dark period, they had gone for over 270 minutes of football without celebrating a single goal. It was that dire.

All those recent statistics aside, Trucha, an Ingwe fan, is a traumatized fan.

For close to three decades, he has not seen his dear club win the league. All he has and continues to cling on to is the past glory and a season in, out promise of an elusive future of better days.

Conversely, and to add salt to injury, nemesis Gor Mahia have been dominating not only their team but also others, bagging the titles for fun, and have now won eight better than them in a decade.

K'Ogalo have also started the current league campaign strongly.

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Now, for you, Trucha, to regurgitate what everybody else already knows: that "cartels" allegedly mismanaged the transfer business for their own selfish ends while calling on fans to do what they've been doing perfectly well all this while, which is to rally behind the team, can only mean that you didn't understand the lay of the land or were just outright insensitive to the feelings of the fans.

Look at the AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia; there's nothing like patience; the fans there, knowing their past history of success, don't have time for it, and they won't give it to you.

It is for you to give them the results they want so as to manage their expectations.

What you needed to do in Mombasa was get a result against Bandari FC that would have given the thousands of traveling fans some hope.

If you did not know, get it from me that, as a foreign coach, a lot more is expected from you. The fans have invested not only emotionally but also financially in the team and, as such, deserve to ask questions and even vent their anger without violence.

The sight of Ingwe at the tail end of the table standings is unpalatable, even to their rivals who believe in the power and beauty of community clubs.

So, instead of writing long statements explaining yourself—something that you ought to have done immediately after taking over—get the Ingwe nation the results they crave.

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