Marked for Jonathan Wakaso
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match27 Feb 2027
No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win
27 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WAFA has to find a result from somewhere.
The terraces1 Mar 2027
Anger at WAFA spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the WAFA boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market1 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 The request is on a desk at WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Yaw Owusu 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 terraces1 Mar 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Yaw Inusah 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 ratings1 Mar 2027
A mark of 7.47, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
David Essien beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
In brief
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The dugout
Isaac Afful: “We have to be better”
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Squad
A row about effort at WAFA
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Match
Point won or two lost for WAFA?
Back issues
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Crisis
Match16 Jan 2027
21 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 21, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jan 2027
14 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market18 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around WAFA people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match16 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for WAFA
0‑4 against Wa All Stars, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match16 Jan 2027
No clean sheets in sight for WAFA
6 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at WAFA
Yaw Owusu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
Inquest at WAFA
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Baba Ofori is still paying for one afternoon at WAFA
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Match9 Jan 2027
20 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 20, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for WAFA
0‑3 against Aduana Stars, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market11 Jan 2027
Yaw Inusah hands in a written request
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Jonathan Wakaso: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Yaw Owusu 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
No clean sheets in sight for WAFA
5 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Essien was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Joseph Kudus 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the WAFA dressing room in a hurry
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Squad
Baba Annan signs on for more
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Loan watch
Yaw Annan counts the days
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Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
16 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around WAFA 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 WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
Isaac Schlupp and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joseph Kudus, and the manager let it.
Match14 Dec 2026
WAFA at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 16, 4 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. WAFA told Isaac Schlupp something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Baba Ofori's mistake
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Squad
A row about effort at WAFA
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Squad
Competition arrives for Felix Bukari
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Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
15 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
Anger at WAFA spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a goal for WAFA
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Yaw Inusah and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I watch every WAFA game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at New Edubiase United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Christian Mensah 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Felix Bukari makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for WAFA
13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
7 saves: Kwame Gyan was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Yaw Owusu runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
Yaw Owusu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
At 23 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.79, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonathan Wakaso was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Andrew Boakye damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match2 Nov 2026
WAFA sink to position 16
1 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market2 Nov 2026
Amos Appiah hands in a written request
“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.
Match31 Oct 2026
WAFA cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Isaac Schlupp 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Yaw Inusah
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Bechem United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Felix Bukari
“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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
A row about effort at WAFA
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Squad
Christian Mensah is no longer first choice