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How the late Bob Munro formed Kenya Premier League

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Casket containing the remains of Mathare Youth Sports Association founder, the late Robert Donald Munro during a Requiem mass at St Andrews Church in Nairobi on January 27, 2025. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Bob Munro's body was cremated on Tuesday this week to mark the end of an era and open a new one for Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA). We will never know everything Bob did behind the scene but from the tributes that were shared, Bob was many things to people.

One thing we will give him credit for is the creation of Kenyan Premier League Limited (KPL), the limited company that ran the league until Nick Mwendwa was elected Football Kenya Federation (FKF) chairman in 2016.

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