The Hasaacas Gazette
Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Seth Paintsil
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Ernest Sulemana beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Seth Paintsil 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2026
WAFA take the points off Hasaacas
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
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 0‑1 Jeffrey Adjei left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abeiku Baba 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.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
Manuel Mantey faces his old club
Medeama 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Patrick Mensah gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Patrick Mensah is on it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Mohammed Appiah suspended
One booking too many, and Mohammed Appiah sits out. Hasaacas lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
In brief
- The dugout Edmund Inusah left out for tactical reasons at Hasaacas
- The dugout Patrick Ayew knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Hasaacas host Medeama