All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:
Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18
Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28
Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18
Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489
We are witnessing history.
On Matchday 33 of the 2025–26 Premier League season, Arsenal played against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.
The game ended 2–1 in favour of City. At full-time, Manchester City players were doing victory laps while rival fans flooded social media with posts about Arsenal bottling the league.
But in the middle of all the gloom, one man lifted his head, looked at his captain Martin Ødegaard and said:
“It’s not done.”
That man was Declan Rice.
Arsenal went on to win every remaining league game, storming to the Premier League title and finishing 7 points clear of Manchester City.
But why do I look back on Matchday 33 with such nostalgia?
Because ladies and gentlemen, it’s been exactly 33 days since Arsenal won the league title.
Morning my favorite Engineer, Eng. Luka Kipchumba Kimeli the boss and DG @KeNHAKenya 🫡
By now we’re friends. You know I’m an agent of goodwill.
So allow me, in that spirit, to point out a serious error of judgment your engineering team committed, one I’m convinced nobody has had the courage to explain to you directly.
Now Engineer, you know my credentials.
I went to Kingeero Polytechnic.
My engineering skills are strictly limited to fulcrum mechanics, specifically the kind required to pop a bottle cap at the watering hole using a lighter and pure physics.
I say this so you know I come as a humble villager, not a competitor for your job.
But even a Kingeero graduate can see THIS one, Engineer.
Look at the image. It’s the image of the new Ngong Road–Naivasha Road flyover at Junction Mall.
Study it like you studied for your Strength of Materials exam.
So to summarize for the non-engineers reading this: you survive a blind merge at speed, only to be welcomed by a concrete landmine seconds later.
Two trials. One junction. Towards Karen.
Engineer, I ask you with the full respect of a man who’s spent 3-4 hours of his life thinking about you daily.
Did anyone at KENHA actually drive through this junction before declaring it complete?
Or did the design get approved from an office with good WiFi and zero windows?
This isn’t corruption, Engineer.
This is just… confusing.
And confusing kills people.
Fix Point A. Remove Point B. Save a life before you save face.
Your favorite villager, still rooting for you. 🚧🙏🏾
In 2013, at 31 years old, Mikel Arteta was Arsenal’s vice-captain and midfield leader.
Born on March 26, 1982, he had joined Arsenal from Everton in late August 2011 for around £10m.
He left the pitch in 2016, sharpened his craft as Pep Guardiola’s assistant at Manchester City, and returned to Arsenal in 2019 tasked with bringing the club back among Football’s elite.
Fast forward to today, 20th June 2026...
It has been exactly 31 days since Arsenal won the Premier League title under his management.
Once upon a time, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was summoned by President Jomo Kenyatta to Nakuru; only to be humiliated by Provincial Commissioner Isaiah Mwai Mathenge.
Moi had apparently arrived early in the evening at State House, Nakuru, to see the old Jomo but Mathenge and the President’s aide-de-camp kept him in the waiting room but allowed numerous groups to jump the queue in a bid to infuriate and humiliate Moi.
As Vice-President, Moi faced the political test all those who are a heartbeat away from the seat go through.
When Kenyatta rang through to see who was left, Mathenge replied:
‘There is only Moi here.’
Then Kenyatta came out and started speaking Kikuyu which Moi followed with difficulty.
In the end, he asked Moi to listen to a choir with him before discussing some business.
Kenyatta dozed off during the singing and Moi came to accept the regular humiliation he faced as part of the political game.
His friend Ronald Ngala, among other political allies, could not believe that Moi should accept such consistent humiliation.
When the payback time came, Moi served it crudely – more based on the adage 'revenge is a dish best served cold'.
Mathenge was in a small coterie that included Rift Valley Roads Engineer Kim Gatende who was more famous as a Safari Rally driver and as a millionaire.
Gatende would normally be a co-driver to the Lands and Settlement Permanent Secretary Peter Shiyukah, who in 1974, became the first African driver to obtain a manufacturers team drive with his Ford Escort RS 1600.
With money, hubris and pathologically narcissistic civil servants, Mathenge and Gatende made sure that Moi felt their presence in the Rift Valley.
Another one, working on behalf of Kiambu mafia of Mbiyu Koinange, was Rift Valley police boss James Erastus Mungai.
While Mathenge would later make peace with Moi albeit for a short period, both Mungai and Gatende would be the first to suffer the rise of Moi to the top seat.
By betraying some of his friends for Moi, Mathenge died a frustrated man – and lonely.
To save his skin and job, Mathenge had not only betrayed his closest friends – that is how he retained his position – but was also used to make political scares.
For instance, on 10 November 1978, just three months after Kenyatta had died and Moi had been elected the President, Mathenge started calling Mungai during odd hours of day and night asking whether he was still alive.
By this time, Moi had ordered Mungai to proceed on leave.
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In January 2023, Arsenal missed out on £86M Mudryk and signed Trossard for £26m instead.
One became embroiled in a doping scandal. The other helped deliver Arsenal's league title.
Why mention the £26m fee today?
Because it's been exactly 26 days since Arsenal won the league.
In the Premier League, a club can submit a maximum of 25 senior players for the official squad registration (the “25-man squad list”).
But the question many are asking is, why 25? Because 25 in this case is exactly the same number of days since Arsenal won the league title.