Marked for Andre Addo
From our football correspondent
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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Robert Lartey and WAFA agree another 3 years.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
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.
Squad23 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
He is 20, and nobody at WAFA signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ernest Mohammed was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the WAFA dressing room was either.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Andre Addo
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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for WAFA?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Bechem United? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Market9 Nov 2026
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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Kamaldeen Schlupp, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.87
A mark of 7.87 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
David Kudus and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Kamaldeen Schlupp’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Kamaldeen Schlupp 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abeiku Asante was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andre Addo commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Felix Wakaso 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
David Kudus was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Nana Sulemana
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at WAFA
Ernest Ofori 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ernest Mohammed after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match14 Oct 2026
The small margins put WAFA out
Out, 1‑4 to Medeama, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
A cup embarrassment at Medeama follows WAFA home
1-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Andre Addo
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Felix Wakaso 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Wa All Stars made WAFA work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Thomas Ofori at his very best
Marked 8.68. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WAFA.
The dugout19 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.21 — 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.
In brief
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Squad
Baba Adjei falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
Nobody left the WAFA dressing room in a hurry
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Patrick Amoah's mistake
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at WAFA
Abdul Partey and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 18 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was David Kudus’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
David Kudus was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.41. 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.
The dugout21 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 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Market21 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. David Kudus may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.