Baba Addo

Striker - Liberty Professionals
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Baba Addo

22 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Liberty Professionals throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with New Edubiase United the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Liberty Professionals will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

A brace, and Amos Afful takes the afternoon — 8.39

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Amos Afful provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

No end in sight to Liberty Professionals's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Liberty Professionals has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Kwame Essien pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Tempers go at Liberty Professionals

Samuel Afful 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Samuel Afful

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Samuel Afful

Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Daniel Annan

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Honours even between Liberty Professionals and New Edubiase United

3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Liberty Professionals Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kamaldeen Asante

103 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Liberty Professionals lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Harrison Djiku runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Liberty Professionals

Samuel Afful 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.

Match

Liberty Professionals see off Berekum Chelsea

Three points for Liberty Professionals, 2‑1 the final word against Berekum Chelsea in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Amos Afful

Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Jeffrey Nuhu 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.

In brief