The Liberty Professionals Chronicle
Squad18 Jan 2027
Daniel Boateng keeps Liberty Professionals in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Patrick Djiku keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Liberty Professionals may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Andre Appiah runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Liberty Professionals
Francis Mohammed 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Andre Appiah 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Liberty Professionals against Hasaacas
0‑1 to Hasaacas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
David Acquah could not find anything
4.66. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A day to forget for Albert Schlupp
Marked 5.56, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Player ratings Ebenezer Shamo never got going
- Market The shop window has Amos Bukari in it