Marked for Patrick Nuhu
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match13 Feb 2027
A hiding for WAFA
Beaten 1‑4 by Great Olympics, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market15 Feb 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for WAFA
7 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at WAFA is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A move Molemo Seemela 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. Molemo Seemela is living that version at WAFA, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Abdul Partey 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
David Kudus 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 dugout15 Feb 2027
“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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Inquest at WAFA
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abraham Kudus
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. WAFA lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match16 Jan 2027
A hiding for WAFA
Beaten 1‑4 by Medeama, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market18 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for David Kudus
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. David Kudus will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market18 Jan 2027
Patrick Nuhu 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.
Market18 Jan 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market18 Jan 2027
WAFA say no — this time
The offer from Tusker for Ernest Ofori 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Felix Wakaso: 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.” WAFA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Abdul Partey 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Kudus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abraham Kudus
70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. WAFA lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Dec 2026
Nobody above WAFA
First, on 29 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Kamaldeen Schlupp, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76
A mark of 7.76 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play WAFA right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match19 Dec 2026
Heart of Lions made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Abdul Partey was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.28. 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thomas Afful was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Francis Partey was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.01. 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.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. WAFA lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match12 Dec 2026
WAFA cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andre Addo is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Kudus 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: David Kudus. 2‑1 against Berekum Chelsea, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Thomas Afful 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Patrick Amoah 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. WAFA lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
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Triumph
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match26 Sep 2026
WAFA make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now WAFA have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
David Kudus 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Real improvement from a squad player at WAFA
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. a squad player is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match26 Sep 2026
BA All Stars made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 15 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Abeiku Asante 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Nuhu, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Ernest Mohammed kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.