Marked for Daniel Schlupp
From our football correspondent
Steady
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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Christian Schlupp 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.49 on the card, and the Liberty Professionals support went home talking about one name.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Match7 Oct 2026
Hasaacas are out and Liberty Professionals go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match7 Oct 2026
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Yaw Asamoah decided nobody was going anywhere. Hasaacas had no time left to answer.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Daniel Schlupp at 19 — 7.66
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Daniel Schlupp did not need any: 7.66, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad12 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Djiku 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 terraces12 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Daniel Schlupp 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Hearts of Oak, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Yaw Asamoah 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.