Marked for Jonathan Atiemo
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad5 Oct 2026
3 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 7 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Albert Asamoah at 20 — 8.31
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Albert Asamoah did not need any: 8.31, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match3 Oct 2026
8‑9 to Wa All Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Match3 Oct 2026
WAFA are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 10.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Brahim Sabaouni 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
17 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and Wa All Stars in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
WAFA throw away a 3-goal lead
3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Aduana Stars the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that WAFA will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Albert Asamoah, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.93
A mark of 7.93 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad28 Sep 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for WAFA
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brahim Sabaouni, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Osman Mohammed was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.27. 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.15 — 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 5 saves does not settle it either way.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Bernard Nuhu has come up in conversations WAFA were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Isaac Annan commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Berekum Chelsea will make the call about Abraham Inusah this week. WAFA have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.