Marked for Patrick Ofori
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
11 matches without a win for BA All Stars
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around BA All Stars are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Afriyie Atiemo damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Kwame Waris goes up and wins it — 7.71
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.71 for the rest of it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Moses Moffi 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dennis Konney was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I watch every BA All Stars game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Berekum Chelsea runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match28 Nov 2026
It needed Kwame Waris to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Asante Kotoko, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
10 matches without a win for BA All Stars
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around BA All Stars are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Nov 2026
32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. BA All Stars lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match23 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for BA All Stars
Position 16 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad23 Nov 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Patrick Ofori: 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Moses Moffi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Edmund Mohammed, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout23 Nov 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Yaw Amoah stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.75 on the card, and the BA All Stars support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Afriyie Atiemo damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Moses Moffi 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
7 new faces, and BA All Stars are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
BA All Stars take on the side everybody is chasing
Liberty Professionals arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
82 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. BA All Stars lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match3 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Moses Moffi 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Medeama left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kwame Waris is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Kwame Waris has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 4.50, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
The dugout5 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Mohammed Mensah is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Afriyie Atiemo damages knee ligaments — 89 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 89 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Kwame Waris goes up and wins it — 7.29
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.29 for the rest of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kwame Waris 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A move Suleiman Badaru would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Suleiman Badaru is living that version at BA All Stars, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Baba Annan gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abeiku Amoah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Gladson Sulemana to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
96 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. BA All Stars lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Sep 2026
Kwame 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 BA All Stars can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kwame Waris 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Hearts of Oak, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Yaw Amoah
“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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at BA All Stars, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gladson Sulemana after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Patrick Ofori
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.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
BA All Stars take on the side everybody is chasing
WAFA arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.