Marked for Thomas Kudus
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
Francis Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 3-goal lead gone for WAFA
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Hasaacas kept coming because nothing stopped them, and WAFA will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A brace, and Jonathan Annan takes the afternoon — 8.17
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jonathan Annan provided it, and the 8.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Hamza Asrir 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten WAFA
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Joseph Appiah was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.66. 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Honours even between WAFA and Hasaacas
4‑4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohammed Mensah, and the manager let it.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Great Olympics to sit and watch. I want to come back to WAFA and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
Francis Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 60 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 60 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.73 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.99 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Albert Ofori 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Inter Allies made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match7 Nov 2026
Albert Paintsil among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Albert Paintsil on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of WAFA and Inter Allies.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jonathan Annan 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mohammed Mensah
“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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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 59. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.65, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Efe Lucky at 21 — 7.64
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Efe Lucky did not need any: 7.64, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Dija Baiano yet — 7.95
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Great Olympics may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Abdellah Haimoud 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
1‑2 to WAFA, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Francis Sulemana damages knee ligaments — 88 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 88 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 ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Oct 2026
The cup run ends for WAFA
0‑1 against Medeama, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match10 Oct 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. David Adjei scored in the 89th minute, Great Olympics had already begun thinking about the journey home, and WAFA took the lot.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hamza Asrir 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Great Olympics made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hamza Asrir 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.10 — 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Great Olympics to sit and watch. I want to come back to WAFA and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mohammed Mensah damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.
Market14 Sep 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market14 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jonathan Annan 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 terraces14 Sep 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Jonathan Annan
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonathan Annan 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
WAFA get the job done against Medeama
A 2‑0 win over Medeama, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joseph Appiah, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Great Olympics to sit and watch. I want to come back to WAFA and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.