Marked for Patrick Appiah
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Mar 2027
No end in sight to BA All Stars's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at BA All Stars has to find a result from somewhere.
Market15 Mar 2027
Andre Atiemo 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 BA All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Mar 2027
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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Bernard Boakye 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match13 Mar 2027
It needed Andre Addo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against New Edubiase United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Daniel Asante 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Patrick Appiah
“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 ratings15 Mar 2027
Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market1 Feb 2027
Aalborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and BA All Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Feb 2027
Lefa Ngwenya 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 BA All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ernest Inusah, and the manager let it.
Match30 Jan 2027
Wa All Stars left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andre Owusu 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Daniel Asante 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
An afternoon Daniel Gyan will want back
Marked 5.55. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
Market21 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 4‑2, and it was Jonathan Boateng’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to BA All Stars.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Andre Addo 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.
Squad21 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaw Adjei 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Jonathan Boateng has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.