Marked for Patrick Addo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces8 Nov 2027
Anger at WAFA spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market8 Nov 2027
“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.
Match6 Nov 2027
A 1‑0 win over Inter Allies, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Marked 7.79. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Kwame Adjei 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.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
WAFA pull $3.9M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad8 Nov 2027
The plan did not have a place for Abdul-Aziz Adam
Nobody at WAFA is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Squad8 Nov 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Anger at WAFA spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Pressure builds in the WAFA boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market19 Jul 2027
WAFA say no — this time
The offer from Rangers International for Albert Owusu was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Anger at WAFA spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at WAFA
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at WAFA is running low.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Kwame Adjei 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match7 Oct 2026
WAFA through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Medeama, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Patrick Addo could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.27
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.27, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Jonathan Appiah, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.67
A mark of 7.67 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonathan Appiah 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to New Edubiase United to sit and watch. I want to come back to WAFA and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kwame Adjei 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.