Marked for Othuke Egbo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Chisom Ogbun hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Warri Wolves can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Warri Wolves this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nahuel Arias, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Wasiu Falolu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Warri Wolves.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Wasiu Falolu at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Warri Wolves.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Warri Wolves can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mustapha Gbolahan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Warri Wolves training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nahuel Arias is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match5 Sep 2026
0‑2 to Enyimba, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Vincent Edafe
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Vincent Edafe lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 90% of everything Warri Wolves earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Warri Wolves out
Out, 1‑1 to Remo Stars, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.55, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Vincent Edafe: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Abdulateef Yusuff at 20 — 8.74
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Abdulateef Yusuff did not need any: 8.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Warri Wolves can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Plateau United for Godstime Edewor was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mustapha Gbolahan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ezekiel Oroh. 3‑1 against Rangers International, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Seth Mayi
Marked 9.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Ikorodu City are out and Warri Wolves go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.50 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Warri Wolves this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nahuel Arias falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.70 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nahuel Arias gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Nahuel Arias
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Warri Wolves will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Wasiu Falolu gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Wasiu Falolu has just signed for Warri Wolves, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Warri Wolves this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Warri Wolves training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chisom Orji is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Seth Mayi
7.77, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Warri Wolves had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.