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From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Unisport Bafang lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 0‑3 beating by Victoria United was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Martin Laurice out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Unisport Bafang will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Unisport Bafang can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Kelvin Leku 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 Unisport Bafang this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Armhel Yandeme, and the manager let it.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout30 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 0‑3 Jacques Mabouka left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Unisport Bafang lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match21 Nov 2026
It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Kelvin Leku 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.
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 Unisport Bafang this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Elie Junior Bamal. 1‑0 against Panthere du Nde, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Elie Junior Bamal was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Jacques Mabouka, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
14 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.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Unisport Bafang lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Martin Laurice out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Unisport Bafang will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Divane Tchameni: 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.” Unisport Bafang have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kelvin Leku and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Barau have kept their man, and Unisport Bafang go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Unisport Bafang, another week without a signature from Kelvin Leku.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Junior Rostand M'baï 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Stade Renard de Melong came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 18. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.