SuperSport exit is so painful

Supersport TV crew in action during a KPL match at City Stadium Photo:Boniface Okendo

Shock and disbelief greeted the football fraternity when South African pay television channel SuperSport recently announced that they were terminating their contract with the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) which had been in existence since 2007.

For 10 years SuperSport invested in the Kenyan league, pumping in millions of shillings. No one had foreseen their exit. In justifying their exit, the giant pay television cited “breach of contract” by their KPL partners.