The Great Olympics Gazette
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Paulinho
129 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Great Olympics lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Sep 2026
Harrison Atiemo 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 Great Olympics can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Great Olympics
Adeyemo Bolaji 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Kelvin Nkrumah at Great Olympics
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kelvin Nkrumah is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nicholas Ablido runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
Samson Obi the difference as Great Olympics beat Hasaacas
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Samson Obi. 2‑0 against Hasaacas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Samson Obi at his very best
- Squad Words at Great Olympics training over how hard people work
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Claudinho