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Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
Beaten 3‑7 by Medeama, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market9 Nov 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 The request is on a desk at Bechem United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Emmanuel Acquah at 19 — 8.88
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Emmanuel Acquah did not need any: 8.88, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Bechem United's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bechem United has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Nov 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Bechem United
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Isaiah Nyarko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match7 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Bechem United and Medeama, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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Uneasy
Match7 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over Berekum Chelsea, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.79 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Samuel Ayinebire Atubga did not need any: 8.43, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Richard Dwamena is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Isaiah Nyarko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match10 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Bechem United and Heart of Lions in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bechem United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 2‑5 beating by Asante Kotoko was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market7 Sep 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 Bechem United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.65 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.60 for the rest of it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Bechem United close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Kofi Tompuo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match5 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Bechem United and Asante Kotoko, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad7 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 Bechem United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.