Marked for Samuel Waris
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match5 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against New Edubiase United, and it could have been more.
Match5 Dec 2026
10 unbeaten for WAFA
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation WAFA did not have in the autumn.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” WAFA may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match5 Dec 2026
WAFA settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. New Edubiase United spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Albert Boakye was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.35. 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The award goes to Albert Boakye, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christian Essien commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis Baba 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.
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Upbeat
Match28 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten WAFA
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match28 Nov 2026
Three points for WAFA, 2‑0 the final word against Inter Allies in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.40 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kwadwo Atiemo and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Francis 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Emmanuel Kudus
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, WAFA have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Ernest Amoah has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at WAFA will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Match21 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, WAFA do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Edmund 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Sharif Shuaib
“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
A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Francis Baba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Christian Kudus was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the WAFA dressing room was either.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Market23 Nov 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Harrison Asante has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at WAFA.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. WAFA will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.71 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Andre Wakaso yet — 8.10
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.10 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Edmund 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andre Atiemo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 21 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
BA All Stars made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Christian Kudus on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Edmund Boateng 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edmund Boateng, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
WAFA come up short against Medeama
Medeama left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Francis Baba 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
WAFA have made Andre Wakaso available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
5.76. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. 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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Felix Waris 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis Baba 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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Osman Asamoah had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edmund Boateng and WAFA agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
Samuel Waris and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Edmund 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Liberty Professionals have kept their man, and WAFA go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Edmund Boateng asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.