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31 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match27 Feb 2027

14 matches without a win for Bayelsa United

The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Bayelsa United are no longer polite ones.

The terraces1 Mar 2027

The mood at Bayelsa United has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Player ratings1 Mar 2027

Kenneth Sheddy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match27 Feb 2027

6 matches without a goal for Bayelsa United

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Gabriel Biriduba in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Mar 2027

James Emo 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.

The terraces1 Mar 2027

Bayelsa United supporters have found a favourite in Issa Yusuf

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Issa Yusuf has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad1 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Mustapha Jawad

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mustapha Jawad, and the manager let it.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Abu Azeez dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match16 Jan 2027

No end in sight to Bayelsa United's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bayelsa United has to find a result from somewhere.

Market18 Jan 2027

Kolawole Oladipo puts it in writing

“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 Bayelsa United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market18 Jan 2027

The Tusker deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Don-Pedro Samuel reports back to Bayelsa United with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad18 Jan 2027

James Emo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Abu Azeez 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Issa Yusuf 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

Bendel Insurance are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Bayelsa United will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match16 Jan 2027

Bayelsa United share the spoils with El-Kanemi Warriors

A 1‑1 draw with El-Kanemi Warriors leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Kenneth Sheddy

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

20 Edition

The Bayelsa United Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Dec 2026

Issa Yusuf: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bayelsa United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market14 Dec 2026

Solomon Obed asks to leave Bayelsa United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Mustapha Jawad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bayelsa United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief