The WAFA Post
Match20 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for WAFA
6 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
The goals have deserted WAFA
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at WAFA can tell you which week it ends in.
Market22 Feb 2027
Christian Kudus puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at WAFA, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match20 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten WAFA
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad22 Feb 2027
David Essien 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Kwame Schlupp was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Lehlohonolo Sepeng
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lehlohonolo Sepeng, and the manager let it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Baba 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Kabelo Mokoele stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kabelo Mokoele and WAFA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout David Asante: “We have to be better”
- The dugout Emmanuel Wakaso knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Kabelo Mokoele is a square peg at WAFA