Watch out Esperance, Gor can beat any team

Greetings from Bunkpuguru-Bolgatanga in Upper Ghana!

As I predicted in this column over a week ago, Tunisia’s Esperance is very beatable in the Caf Champions League.

And from what the boys did in Machakos, I am now more convinced that we can actually eliminate those north Africans brimming with hubris and razzmatazz from the competition.

My heart was heavy due to the fact that when the battle was finally and surely waged that Wednesday afternoon, I was thousands of miles away and could only rely on social media posts to follow the game.

No matter. At the end of the day I slept a peaceful man knowing that at K’Ogalo, we have a team that plays just as we want then to do- face any team without fear or favour and give them a run for their money.

I am confident that we can beat Esperance. We only need an early goal in Tunis then throw in a Fort Knoxx-like defence and we will be home and dry. All we need in that north African city is to have our ducks in a row then fight for a draw.

While at it, I was saddened going through comments by some unfaithful Gor Mahia fans who believe that we cannot go past Esperance.

Reading the posts from these men and women, you would think that Esperance just did us a favour by drawing in Machakos.

This is despite my good counselling to these people that we are ale to run rings around the north Africa side.

This is what I said: “As I said in this column last Monday, I belong to the group of latter day Green Army saints who are staunch defenders of the K’Ogalo faith which states that on a good day Gor Mahia can beat any team in the world. And yes, this includes Esperance.

“I am alive to the fact that our outing against the Tunisian side four years ago was a nightmare. I am also alive to the fact that it is the very Esperance we walloped when we won the Nelson Mandela Cup in 1987. If it could happen in 1987 it can happen in 2018.”

I was left feeling like one of the prophets of yore who appeared like tilting at the windmills for nobody would hearken to their oracles.

I am once again forced go ask of these prophets’ of doom - lift up your spirits oh you of little faith!

This leads me to ask another pertinent question - how come no media house saw it fit to relay this big match live?

It was an indication of how we treat our local football when not a single station bothered to air the match while a television station from Tunisia was showing the same. Right from our own Machakos backyard!