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Gor Mahia fans protest ‘unknown Kenyan team’ tag from English press


Gor Mahia fans have taken great exception to an article in the English press suggesting their’s is an “unknown football team.”

On Friday, popular online publication the Daily Mail, headlined one of its articles “Wayne Rooney’s second Everton debut may be against an unknown Kenyan team”.

This was in reference to a hyped up friendly pitting the 15-time Kenyan champions and the English Premier League club slated for Dar es Salaam in Tanzania July 13.

The headline of the story is what seems to have irked K’Ogalo fans even as fans of Gor Mahia’s bitter rivals AFC Leopards responded with cheeky approval.

Soon thereafter, a hashtag #SomeoneTellDailyMail was trending on Twitter. Herein are some of the sampled views: