Felix Baba

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22 Mar 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Felix Baba

71 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Andrew Schlupp runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Felix Baba: 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.” BA All Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Chinedu Chukwu 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at BA All Stars

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Clinton N'jie was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Chinedu Chukwu

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chinedu Chukwu, and the manager let it.

Match

Kwame Acquah sends BA All Stars past Bechem United

It finished 1‑0, and it was Kwame Acquah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to BA All Stars.

Market

Still no ink between BA All Stars and Chinedu Chukwu

“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 Chinedu Chukwu.

Player ratings

Kwame Acquah was the difference for BA All Stars

Marked 7.83. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Kwadwo Asamoah: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

Back issues
69 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

BA All Stars refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 15 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

A falling-out at BA All Stars

Abbey Benson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Clinton N'jie 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 dugout

No hiding place for Abbey Benson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abbey Benson, and the manager let it.

Match

Liberty Professionals take the points off BA All Stars

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Kwadwo Asamoah faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kwadwo Asamoah after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andrew Schlupp

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Elvis Addo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at BA All Stars 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.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Ahmed Adams

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Asante Kotoko in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief