Moamen Sherif

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16 Sep 2040
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Marked for Moamen Sherif

713 Edition

The Hearts of Oak Gazette

26 Mar 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

3 goals for Justin Wright

The match ball belongs to Justin Wright, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

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.

Match

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.

Market

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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

Back issues
691 Edition

The Hearts of Oak Gazette

24 Oct 2039
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Francis Sulemana breaks a bone — 117 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Nobody wants to play Hearts of Oak right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Kelvin Appiah 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 Hearts of Oak this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Davel Damen was immovable

22 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad

A move Djigui Diarra would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Djigui Diarra is living that version at Hearts of Oak, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

Hearts of Oak find a way past Bechem United

Bechem United made Hearts of Oak work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Moamen Sherif stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Moamen Sherif and Hearts of Oak agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

David Oppong shuts the door

Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kwadwo Mohammed

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief