Marked for Bernard Agyemang
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Nov 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 New Edubiase United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Odah Marshall 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at New Edubiase United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Boujad 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Hasaacas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market2 Nov 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market5 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at New Edubiase United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; New Edubiase United are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Odah Marshall 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bernard Agyemang. 3‑2 against Inter Allies, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at New Edubiase United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Boujad 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.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Mohamed Hasnaoui out for 132 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason New Edubiase United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A first appearance Jordan Amissah will want to forget — 5.58
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.58, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bernard Agyemang 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Asante Kotoko left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at New Edubiase United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Boujad 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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Mohamed Hasnaoui out for 139 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason New Edubiase United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Allesandro Du Plessis is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mohamed Boujad 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market14 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.