Marked for Jonathan Acquah
From our football correspondent
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.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Albert Asamoah at 20 — 7.97
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Albert Asamoah did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Christian Wakaso 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Felix Asante is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Abraham Bukari’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brahim Sabaouni 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Albert Asamoah
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Albert Asamoah has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match19 Sep 2026
WAFA settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. BA All Stars spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Patrick Addo gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Chances created: 7. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
In brief
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The terraces
They were still singing at the end
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Player ratings
Abraham Bukari runs at them all day
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Sep 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and Medeama in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kamaldeen Atiemo 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
WAFA and Medeama take a point apiece
It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Osman Ayew
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. WAFA were going nowhere until he came on.
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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.