The BA All Stars Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
Joseph Boakye keeps BA All Stars in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market14 Sep 2026
Andre Appiah asks to leave BA All Stars
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Andre Appiah at BA All Stars
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andre Appiah is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Francis Amoah runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Francis Amoah 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Edmund Acquah in the eights
A performance of 8.61 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Bernard Appiah
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bernard Appiah, and the manager let it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Talks stall between BA All Stars and Christian Ayew
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Match12 Sep 2026
Honours even between BA All Stars and Hearts of Oak
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Bernard Appiah could not do
- Player ratings A day to forget for Gladson Paintsil
- Market Christian Ayew runs his contract down