The Plateau United Sentinel
Squad7 Sep 2026
John Amah keeps Plateau United in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market7 Sep 2026
Dapal Monday 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 The request is on a desk at Plateau United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Plateau United
Victor Dawa 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 156% of everything Plateau United earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Gafar Saka
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gafar Saka, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
One of those days for Sad'eeq Yusuf
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tarabina Biweribo 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Vincent Temitope runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
Honours even between Plateau United and Bendel Insurance
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
- Market Still no ink between Plateau United and Alao Dabani
- Player ratings Albert Hilary could have had three
- Player ratings Gafar Saka could not find anything