The historic visit of English former EPL heavyweights Norwich City to the country in 1975 was marred with excitements and controversy with deceased politician Kenneth Matiba being at the epicenter of it.
Details collected by veteran journalist Roy Gachuhi reveals how Matiba, then KFF chairman summoned KPL giants Gor Mahia, AFC Leopards and Mombasa based Mwnge FC over the tour.
While beating the English side, which had the likes of 1966 World Cup winner Peters, was unimaginable, Matiba asked the three teams to use witchcraft to influence the outcome of the results.
If Kenyan teams succeeds, recalls Gachuhi, Matiba would go ahead to pay club witch doctors for the following two seasons.
"Let them use the best witch doctors they have. If they win, we are ready to accept witchcraft as a component in Kenyan football," he told officials.
But according to ex-Harambee Stars goalkeepe, Mohamoud Abbass, then with Mwenge, Matiba may have used his statements as a plot to smoke witchcraft in Kenyan football.
'Matiba wanted to use Norwich trip to smoke out practitioners of witchcraft in Kenyan football by holding them public ridicule," he would reveal.
Coincidentally, Matiba had chased witch doctors from Kenya Breweries, now Tusker, where he was the Managing Director.
Even with an okay from the football boss to use witchcraft, officials from both clubs are said to have kept mum over the matter.
During the preseason matches, Martin Peter led the demolition of Champions Gor Mahia, who lost 4-1 before AFC Lepards going down 6-1.
Against all odds, only Mwenge FC managed to only concede 3 goals, scoring one in a tough match played at Mombasa against the EPL side.
This week, Matiba, whose reign as chairman of Kenyan football witnessed great successes, died aged 86 in a Nairobi hospital.