The Hearts of Oak Gazette
Squad26 Mar 2040
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abdul-Aziz Adam
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hearts of Oak lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Mar 2040
A fracture rules Ofori McCarthy out for 130 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hearts of Oak will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Mar 2040
Justin Wright wins it after the whistle should have gone
94 minutes played. Justin Wright found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and WAFA went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad26 Mar 2040
3 goals for Justin Wright
The match ball belongs to Justin Wright, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings26 Mar 2040
Age has not caught George Paaku yet — 8.02
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.02 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match24 Mar 2040
Hearts of Oak get the job done against WAFA
A 4‑3 win over WAFA, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market26 Mar 2040
Jeffrey Ayew linked with a move away
The name of Jeffrey Ayew keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hearts of Oak say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings26 Mar 2040
Ninety minutes of Justin Wright at his very best
Marked 9.56. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hearts of Oak.
Squad26 Mar 2040
Words at Hearts of Oak training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kelvin Appiah 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.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Justin Wright
- Player ratings Moamen Sherif changes it off the bench
- Player ratings Kwadwo Mohammed runs at them all day