Marked for Harrison Atiemo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
11 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Liberty Professionals, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
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.
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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kwame Kyereh, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Inusah 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 51. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Nov 2026
9 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Lucas Batatinha for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Liberty Professionals will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Lucas Batatinha 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Kwame Kyereh 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.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 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 Liberty Professionals can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Oct 2026
7 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Carlinhos 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 Liberty Professionals this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Liberty Professionals training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Batatinha 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Carlinhos
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
It needed Mohammed Acquah to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Medeama, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad26 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Oct 2026
Hasaacas ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match10 Oct 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Harrison Atiemo will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Liberty Professionals escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Daniel Baba, 33, rolls back the years — 7.96
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.96 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match10 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Carlinhos 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 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. Jeffrey Kyereh 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Appiah
“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.
Match10 Oct 2026
It needed Harrison Atiemo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Hearts of Oak, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.