Marked for David Ofori
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match20 Nov 2027
Still nobody has beaten Hasaacas
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The terraces22 Nov 2027
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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Hasaacas
Jeffrey Asamoah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Marked 7.54 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Hasaacas had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Felix Adjei: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match20 Nov 2027
Point won or two lost for Hasaacas?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Ashanti Gold? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead22 Nov 2027
Hearts of Oak next, and one man in the Hasaacas dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
A defender's afternoon for Baba Ayew
Defensive actions: 12. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Ernest Waris was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. 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.
Match13 Nov 2027
Late, late show earns Hasaacas a point
Minute 89, against Heart of Lions, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad15 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Nov 2027
It needed Abraham Waris to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Heart of Lions, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
David Ofori 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Felix Adjei was not hiding it after 3‑3, and nobody in the Hasaacas dressing room was either.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad4 Oct 2027
Amos Adjei breaks a bone — 18 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match2 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Hasaacas's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hasaacas has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
A hand in 2 of them from Ernest Waris — 7.89
Marked 7.89. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Yaw Mensah runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match2 Oct 2027
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kwame Bukari and Hasaacas agree another 2 years.
Match2 Oct 2027
No clean sheets in sight for Hasaacas
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Hasaacas
Jeffrey Asamoah and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Yaw Mensah beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad27 Sep 2027
25 days out for Amos Adjei after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Hasaacas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Samuel Sulemana, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
At 28 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Match25 Sep 2027
Great Olympics left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” David Ofori and Hasaacas agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Felix Adjei after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Hasaacas lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Apr 2027
“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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Yaw Mensah 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Samuel Sulemana 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 dugout5 Apr 2027
Samuel Sulemana asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
The manager comes out for Samuel Afful
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Samuel Afful has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Albert Djiku is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market15 Mar 2027
“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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Yaw Mensah runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match13 Mar 2027
Hearts of Oak left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Samuel Sulemana 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 dugout15 Mar 2027
news_b_frozen_out_of_the_side
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
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 0‑2 Felix Adjei left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Ofori, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
When it matters, Samuel Addo plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Yaw Mensah runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match6 Feb 2027
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Three points for Hasaacas, 1‑0 the final word against Inter Allies in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Sulemana 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Hasaacas
Jeffrey Asamoah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Marked 7.95 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Hasaacas had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Felix Adjei on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market25 Jan 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ernest Waris had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Hasaacas
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jeffrey Asamoah 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Felix Adjei after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Ofori, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market30 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Yaw Mensah
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Samuel Sulemana 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jeffrey Asamoah 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Felix Adjei was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Hasaacas dressing room was either.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Samuel Sulemana
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Samuel Sulemana asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The plan did not have a place for David Ofori
Nobody at Hasaacas is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Samuel Afful
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Ernest Waris’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hasaacas.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.31 — 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Samuel Sulemana 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.
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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 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.” Felix Adjei, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ernest Waris beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Afriyie Sulemana dropped after a run of poor form
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match7 Oct 2026
Liberty Professionals ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A debut Samuel Addo will not forget — 7.44
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.44 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ernest Waris commits to Hasaacas for another 4 years.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Yaw Mensah runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Hasaacas
Afriyie Sulemana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Asante Kotoko, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A goalkeeper’s error has no defender behind it to tidy it away. He knew before the ball crossed the line, the crowd knew a second later, and there is nothing anybody can say tonight.