Marked for Nana Annan
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.62, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 29 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Andre Addo
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match30 Jan 2027
7 unbeaten for WAFA
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation WAFA did not have in the autumn.
Match30 Jan 2027
WAFA are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Nana Annan 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Nana Boateng
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nana Boateng 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
A 2‑0 win over Liberty Professionals, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amos Sulemana, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Squad
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
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Squad
Getting past Nana Boateng has become the hardest job in the division
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Market
The Amos Sulemana story refuses to die
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Christian Boateng 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Nana Annan 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Andre 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Andre Addo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The terraces14 Dec 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 10 of the 27 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Nana Annan 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Hearts of Oak left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Yaw Ofori runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Ernest 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nana Boateng lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Both of them Andre Addo's — 8.99
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.99, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match5 Dec 2026
WAFA cannot stop winning
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Francis Waris and WAFA agree another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Nana Annan 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Nana Boateng
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nana Boateng 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Hasaacas made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
20 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ernest Mohammed 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ernest Addo named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ernest Addo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match21 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Berekum Chelsea spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Match21 Nov 2026
Nobody wants to play WAFA right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Nana Boateng 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Christian Boateng 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
Andre Addo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for WAFA, 1‑0 the final word against Berekum Chelsea in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Nana Annan
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match2 Nov 2026
WAFA are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Boateng 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Nana Annan 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Amos Sulemana’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Amos Sulemana was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.38. 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Andre Addo
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 27 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Andre Addo
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
Asante Kotoko left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Nana Annan 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amos Sulemana, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ernest Mohammed 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play WAFA right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 3‑1 win over Liberty Professionals, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Amos Sulemana at his very best
Marked 9.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Nana Annan 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match7 Oct 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Jonathan Ayew obliged against Medeama. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is WAFA.
Match10 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
5 on the bounce on the road for WAFA. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Christian Kudus is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nana Annan 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ernest Addo. 2‑0 against Great Olympics, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andre Addo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Amos Sulemana at his very best
Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Andre Addo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nana Annan is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Nana Boateng 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nana Boateng, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Andre Ofori at his very best
Marked 8.48. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andre Ofori 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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Patrick Afful is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nana Boateng 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Nana Annan
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match26 Sep 2026
WAFA keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mohammed Wakaso. 1‑0 against Aduana Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ernest Addo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.78, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market14 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
23 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nana Annan 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ernest Addo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amos Sulemana, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Andre Addo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. 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
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ernest Mohammed 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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Amos Sulemana, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market7 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
2 academy players handed senior numbers at WAFA
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for WAFA, 3‑2 the final word against Ashanti Gold in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market7 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. WAFA have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Nana Annan 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Amos Sulemana
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Amos Sulemana 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Gazelle come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Patrick Afful is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrew Boateng
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. WAFA lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what WAFA can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 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.