Marked for William Apenteng
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match29 Apr 2028
6 matches without a win for Kenya Police
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Kenya Police are no longer polite ones.
Market1 May 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at Kenya Police, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 May 2028
Marvin Nabwire 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.
Squad1 May 2028
Yves Koutiama 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 dugout1 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tyshick Mosengo, and the manager let it.
Match29 Apr 2028
0‑1 to Tusker, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings1 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout1 May 2028
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Peter Omurwa after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Boardroom1 May 2028
85% of the income goes out in wages at Kenya Police
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad1 Feb 2027
William Apenteng damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match1 Feb 2027
Every point is an argument now for Great Olympics
Position 14 and 16 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Great Olympics close the window on a squad of their own making
4 in and 0 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Isaac Frimpong 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Evans Oppong
“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 dugout1 Feb 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Apenteng
28 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
David Benjamin 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.66 on the card, and the Great Olympics support went home talking about one name.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Gideon Asante Yeboah 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Evans Mensah beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Amos Asante on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Lerato Ntamane
“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.
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Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Apenteng
35 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Great Olympics this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Great Olympics asked and Aduana Stars said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Edwin Gyimah
“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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Looking ahead18 Jan 2027
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Amos Asante after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Apenteng
42 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad11 Jan 2027
David Benjamin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
The town asked, and Great Olympics paid $34.0K
Yaw Annor was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $34.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lerato Ntamane and Great Olympics agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market11 Jan 2027
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bernard Somuah, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
George Micheal decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Apenteng
49 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.
Match4 Jan 2027
Position 14, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Rocky Dwamena pops up at the right end — 7.55
7.55, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad4 Jan 2027
David Benjamin 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Great Olympics asked and WAFA said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match30 Dec 2026
A point taken on 88 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Match4 Jan 2027
Position 14, 12 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Apenteng
56 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Rocky Dwamena goes up and wins it — 7.84
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 7.84 for the rest of it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Simon Obonde 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.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Bernard Somuah 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Rocky Dwamena’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Great Olympics.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Amos Asante could afford to be generous.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Godfred Asiamah, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
63 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Great Olympics lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Isaac Frimpong, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92
A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match19 Dec 2026
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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match19 Dec 2026
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad21 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 Great Olympics this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Goalkeepers do not get to make mistakes; they get to make goals. He made one, he knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Amos Asante after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
William Apenteng damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Dec 2026
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match12 Dec 2026
1‑3 to Liberty Professionals, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Isaac Frimpong and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Dec 2026
Liberty Professionals held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Great Olympics answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Godfred Asiamah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
Great Olympics take on the side everybody is chasing
Asante Kotoko arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Market14 Dec 2026
Seidu Ismaila is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Great Olympics has been clear about where Seidu Ismaila stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
79 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Great Olympics lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match7 Dec 2026
Position 15, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simon Obonde and Great Olympics agree another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
David Benjamin 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Baba Mensah 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Amos Asante left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gideon Asante Yeboah is on it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Apenteng
86 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
David Benjamin 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
0‑2 to Wa All Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of George Micheal
“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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Amos Asante after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Something was said to Damien Bricks and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Looking ahead30 Nov 2026
Ashanti Gold next, and one man in the Great Olympics dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Bernard Somuah knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Bernard Somuah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
93 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Great Olympics lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 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 Great Olympics this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Rocky Dwamena did the work nobody counts — 6.96
13 combined actions and 6.96. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 2‑0 win over Aduana Stars, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Isaiah Ejeh
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Amos Asante kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Godfred Asiamah 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mathew Abayase
“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 dugout23 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Usman Abubakar is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
101 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Great Olympics lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
David Benjamin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Gideon Asante Yeboah’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Great Olympics needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Evans Oppong knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Evans Oppong trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Gladson Awako gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gladson Awako is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
William Apenteng damages knee ligaments — 108 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 108 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match7 Nov 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Great Olympics are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Simon Obonde 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bernard Somuah, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Amos Asante after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Great Olympics, another week without a signature from Evans Oppong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and Baba Mensah sits out. Great Olympics lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against BA All Stars? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gideon Asante Yeboah is on it.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
William Apenteng damages knee ligaments — 115 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 115 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match31 Oct 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Great Olympics
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Isaac Frimpong 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Isaiah Ejeh 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Great Olympics, another week without a signature from David Benjamin.
Squad2 Nov 2026
8 new faces, and Great Olympics are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Amos Asante left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Isaiah Ejeh's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Apenteng
122 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 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 Great Olympics this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Rocky Dwamena
“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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Amos Asante left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Godfred Asiamah 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Great Olympics have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Usman Abubakar is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
129 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Great Olympics lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match14 Oct 2026
A 5‑2 win over Wa All Stars, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad19 Oct 2026
There were 9 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.57, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.54 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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 ratings19 Oct 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.98, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad19 Oct 2026
David Benjamin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Apenteng
136 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
David Benjamin 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Simon Obonde's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Great Olympics training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Godfred Asiamah is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Damien Bricks, and the manager let it.