Marked for Harrison Schlupp
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces4 Jan 2027
The mood at WAFA has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ernest Baba breaks a bone — 16 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market4 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Afriyie Sulemana again, and this time the name on the line is Asante Kotoko. WAFA are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Samuel Baba for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. WAFA will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for WAFA
4 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Samuel Baba 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Afriyie Sulemana 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jonathan Adjei damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.
Market7 Dec 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Cruel end for Hasaacas as WAFA pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. WAFA scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.66 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ernest Baba breaks a bone — 44 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Afriyie Sulemana 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Afriyie Sulemana. 2‑1 against Hasaacas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Afriyie 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Harrison Schlupp, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jonathan Adjei
77 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.
Market19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ernest Baba breaks a bone — 95 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WAFA has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Afriyie Sulemana is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jonathan Adjei damages knee ligaments — 106 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 106 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
58 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Osman Boateng 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Samuel Baba 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
BA All Stars made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
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.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for WAFA — 7.79
1 for Harrison Schlupp, marked 7.79, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andre Mensah is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for WAFA against Medeama
1‑3 to Medeama, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kamaldeen Partey 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.
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.