Minute 85, against Asante Kotoko, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Dennis Konney is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
It needed Amos Schlupp to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Asante Kotoko, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Christian Inusah was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the BA All Stars dressing room was either.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jamilu Nwankwo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andre Schlupp was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A brace, and Osman Afful takes the afternoon — 8.79
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Osman Afful provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Amos Schlupp 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.
At 21 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.
“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.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Christian Inusah kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andre Schlupp 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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BA All Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BA All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dennis Konney 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.
Andre 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.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at BA All Stars, another week without a signature from Abdallah Maga.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one BA All Stars will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
Still no offer on the table, and a squad player’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
The dugoutAndre Baba asks for a word with the manager
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. BA All Stars will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BA All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dennis Konney was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andre Schlupp and BA All Stars agree another 3 years.
Junior Gqabashe 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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BA All Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
BA All Stars close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dennis Konney was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Jamilu Nwankwo has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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.