Marked for David Partey
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match14 Nov 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Heart of Lions, and it could have been more.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Age has not caught David Partey yet — 8.74
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.74 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match14 Nov 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Hasaacas did not have in the autumn.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Cohen Stander 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Yaw Ayew 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 19 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Marked 8.47 — 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.
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From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match2 Nov 2026
Hasaacas up to position 2
18 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Hasaacas did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bernard Adjei 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Mamaye Coulibaly 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Hasaacas
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Match31 Oct 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Hasaacas will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Hasaacas man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Bernard Adjei was the best thing in any of them.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mustafa Yahaya 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Hasaacas, 2‑0 the final word against Wa All Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Abeiku Wakaso was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.03. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I want to play”: Albert Kwasi speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Market21 Sep 2026
Hasaacas bring in an old head
Josué Balamandji is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Mamaye Coulibaly
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The pass was always on for Yaw Ayew
Chances created: 7. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.