SOCCER SCIENCE A JOY TO HOLD IN JKUAT

Last year’s JKUAT Champions League eclipsed the Italian Scudetto –Serie A and outclassed the flair and pomp of the Barclays British Premier League or the splendor of Spanish La-liga, the Champions League is an effort by soccer lovers in the campus to take some time away from the big screens where Gtv and Dstv call the shots so that they can show case some of the skills learnt and most importantly bond with students from other departments its also away to exhale the tough and lethal fumes after an ‘academic burn out’

JKUAT is home to not so bad and not so good soccer pitches notwithstanding that is where the action went down. In the first game the “Mechaniks” (Mechanical Engineering Department) seemed to be using pollutant leaded fuel and their coveted 6.0 liter V8 twin-turbocharged engine with dual intercoolers was firing blanks the valves bowed to pressure, they squandered a two goal lead, their defense warriors could not hold and they were falling apart and everything went topsturvy finishing 2-3 against the “Physkal Wizards” - (Physical Science Department)

The next game was between “Physkal Wizards” versus BEED (Bio Mechanical And Environmental Eng Department) perhaps the BEED guys worried about Green gas emission seduced the scientists to back the Kyoto protocol in exchange of a Bundalangi of 4 goals. Bsc Physical Science perhaps wanting to end a four year jinx of losing in every final since the JKUAT champions league was started were upbeat and went to deflower by giving “food scientists” (Horticulture Department) a taste of their own medicine in terms of squeezing goals out of them and surely the juice of goals was worth the squeeze.

The unlucky culprits were the Alternative Degree Program (ADP) they looked as damsels in distress crying fowl at every decision made by the referees and other match officials – they proved that if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your verbal superiority anyway that’s not an ingredient for success. Maybe next time you can assemble your femme fatale babies as a cheering squad they can attract opponent’s attention and hand you an easy victory

Then came the “Elec Elec” (Electrical engineering department) soccer wannabes who were the defending champions they seemed to have the Midas touch and every team the played against soaked under a flood of goals. They carried a big banner of Heineken claiming those were their sponsors no wonder the frequent black outs in JKUAT.

The most interesting game was a semifinal match; it made the final match pale in comparison and proved football to be as glitzy and quintessential as it could get for the stern faced and skillful masters of the game (“Elec Elec” guys) against the flamboyant and tenacious “Physkal Wizards”. After an excruciating 90 minutes and an extra time of grass trampling “Elec Elec” snatched a lucky penalty shoot out win, “Physkal Wizards” who were heard whispering that the road to success is always under construction but they forgot that if at first you don't succeed, redefine success, as this was their third time in a row they missed to clinch the title. “Elec Elec” soccer pundits used every cliché in the “Theraja” and other Engineering Bibles to explain the nanotech chip technology which makes their circuit board of soccer prowess tick.

One question still begs as to which Operating system the Computer Science (ICSIT) guys used in the “project soccer”? Practice what you preach if you use Linux OS in your computers how come you brought a virus infected Windows OS to the pitch and ended up losing every game was it a system crash or a Trojan horse tactic backfired?

Despite all this eudemonic showcase fans could hardly steer away from the Premier League and La-Liga football discussions, I challenge everyone to consider our own Kenyan soccer league for its going live brought by Dstv supersports channel, Anyway for the losers -sometimes you get the bear....and sometimes the bear gets you, as for the winners you can't afford to get lackadaisical and rest on your laurels. For this year it shall be a battle to remember!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!