Marked for Derrick Fordjour
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Medeama
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match12 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, Medeama do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings14 Dec 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 Dec 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 Medeama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 8.52 — 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 8.17 — 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Victor Oduro
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Felix Kyei 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Richard Boadu 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Joshua Agyemang
“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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.80, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. New Edubiase United will be the happier side with the point.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Medeama have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 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 Medeama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Richard Boadu
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.70, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match14 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Derrick Fordjour. 1‑0 against Inter Allies, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Partey, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
10 matches without a win for Medeama
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Medeama are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 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 Medeama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Derrick Fordjour, and the manager let it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.53, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Bechem United will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 5.30, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Squad9 Nov 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Medeama has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
8 matches without a win for Medeama
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Medeama are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Richard Boadu 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Liberty Professionals, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Shots: 10, 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
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Medeama
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Medeama are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 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 Medeama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Salim Adams, and the manager let it.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every Medeama game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at New Edubiase United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Medeama?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Great Olympics? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 12, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Derrick Fordjour keeps the shirt for now, at Medeama's convenience rather than his own.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Rich Sackey
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Yakubu Saeed to Ashanti Gold has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Medeama with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
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 Medeama this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.