Marked for Osman Baba
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom3 May 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Andre Mohammed has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad3 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nana Paintsil 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.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Osman Baba
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager's exit leaves Abraham Kyereh exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Abraham Kyereh is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$122.1K taken back off the BA All Stars table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Andre Mohammed has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market5 Apr 2027
The offer from Stabaek for Joseph Boateng was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kamaldeen Paintsil 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Osman Baba 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
The loan was meant to give him football. 2 games and 0 goals later he is back at BA All Stars no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.
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Crisis
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market22 Mar 2027
“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 BA All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Mar 2027
0‑1 to Berekum Chelsea, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Both jobs done by Osman Baba — 6.42
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 6.42, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kamaldeen Paintsil 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
Uneasy
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Dec 2026
15 matches without a win for BA All Stars
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around BA All Stars are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Dec 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 BA All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match14 Dec 2026
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Joseph 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nana Paintsil 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.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Harrison Atiemo 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 7.16. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Osman Baba
“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.