Ugandan football now finds itself flirting with the absurd. The idea that FUFA could hand Kitara FC three points for a match that never took place, one deliberately boycotted over a league format FUFA has since scrapped, pushes administration beyond controversy and into creative writing.
At that point, competition is no longer decided by boots and whistles, but by imagination. “This would not be officiating. It would be fiction.”
Let’s rewind. Vipers SC, under the stewardship of Dr. Lawrence Mulindwa, refused to participate in a competition structure they believed was fundamentally defective. This was not a tantrum against fairness or an attempt to game the system. It was a direct confrontation with a league format that made little sporting or logistical sense. FUFA eventually agreed, quietly but clearly. The format was abandoned, and the old structure reinstated. “End of argument.” Or at least, it should have been.
Because awarding Kitara FC three points now would expose a contradiction too glaring to ignore. FUFA would be conceding that the framework Vipers protested against was indeed flawed, while simultaneously penalising the very club whose resistance forced the correction. That is not justice; it is paradox. It is the equivalent of repealing a bad law, then punishing the citizen who challenged it in court. “Justice rewritten with a red pen.”
Then there is the silence, and the time. More than two months have elapsed without a rescheduled date for the abandoned fixture.
This is not due to an impossibly crowded calendar or insurmountable logistics. Matches have been played, weeks have rolled on, and yet this one game remains suspended in administrative limbo. The delay has become conspicuous enough to feel intentional, as though uncertainty itself is now being deployed as a disciplinary measure.
In the meantime, clarity has been offered by the simplest principle in sport: outcomes should be earned, not allocated. If Kitara FC are entitled to three points, let them fight for them on the grass. If Vipers SC were wrong to boycott, let them be defeated where football decisions are meant to be made, between the white lines. Anything else risks transforming regulation into retribution.
Awarding points after removing the very cause of the boycott would not signal authority or decisiveness. It would look like administrative revenge, cloaked in official language and procedural excuses.
As matters stand, Vipers SC have formally requested that FUFA reschedule the fixture and communicate a clear position before January 4, 2026. That request is not radical.
It is reasonable. More importantly, it is an appeal for football to return to the pitch, where it belongs. Because once matches are decided without being played, Ugandan football will not just be managing a league, it will be experimenting with a genre.
