Bassey Bassey

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94 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market15 May 2028

Igbunu Evwierhurhoma 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 The request is on a desk at Warri Wolves, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings15 May 2028

Both of them Othuke Egbo's — 7.71

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad15 May 2028

A one-man rearguard from Vincent Edafe

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout15 May 2028

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Match13 May 2028

The wait goes on for Warri Wolves

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.

Squad15 May 2028

Words exchanged at Warri Wolves

Igbunu Evwierhurhoma 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.

Match13 May 2028

Rivers United take the points off Warri Wolves

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout15 May 2028

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Simon Omeruo to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout15 May 2028

Bassey Bassey 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.

In brief

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90 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match15 Apr 2028

Cruel end for Shooting Stars as Warri Wolves pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Warri Wolves scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

Chisom Orji scores twice — 9.28

Two goals and a mark of 9.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market17 Apr 2028

Eromosele Zibiri 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 Warri Wolves can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout17 Apr 2028

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The dugout17 Apr 2028

Yusuf Muhammad says Warri Wolves went back on their word

“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.

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

Uche Moses was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad17 Apr 2028

A falling-out at Warri Wolves

Alimi Adebayo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match15 Apr 2028

Warri Wolves see off Shooting Stars

Three points for Warri Wolves, 2‑1 the final word against Shooting Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout17 Apr 2028

The manager makes an example of Bassey Bassey

“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.

In brief

39 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match21 Apr 2027

Warri Wolves through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Remo Stars, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market26 Apr 2027

Ezekiel Oroh is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Warri Wolves is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market26 Apr 2027

Igbunu Evwierhurhoma 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 Warri Wolves, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Nobody could get near Othuke Egbo

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad26 Apr 2027

A falling-out at Warri Wolves

Othuke Egbo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match24 Apr 2027

Warri Wolves rescue it on 92 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. Enyimba had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

The afternoon belonged to Igbunu Evwierhurhoma

A mark of 7.86, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Bassey Bassey stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.71 on the card, and the Warri Wolves support went home talking about one name.

Match24 Apr 2027

Honours even between Warri Wolves and Enyimba

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

25 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Jan 2027

14 days out for Vincent Edafe after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Warri Wolves will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market18 Jan 2027

Terms done: Ezekiel Oroh is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Abia Warriors waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Warri Wolves is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match16 Jan 2027

No end in sight to Warri Wolves's wait for a win

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

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Miracle Ukadike: 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.” Warri Wolves have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Warri Wolves

Othuke Egbo 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.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Bassey Bassey beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match16 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Warri Wolves against Nasarawa United

0‑1 to Nasarawa United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Samuel Okon

“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.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Simon Omeruo answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

22 Edition

The Warri Wolves Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Dec 2026

Vincent Edafe breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad28 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Warri Wolves

Othuke Egbo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Ikenna Motors 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Bassey Bassey stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bassey Bassey and Warri Wolves agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Justus Ohanu 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 dugout28 Dec 2026

Uche Sabastine has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Warri Wolves will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief