Marked for Daniel Acquah
From our football correspondent
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Squad15 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match13 Feb 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against New Edubiase United, and it could have been more.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.01 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match15 Feb 2027
Hasaacas refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 50 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Feb 2027
19 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Bernard Inusah 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Baba Schlupp in the middle of it, and New Edubiase United unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 50. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Daniel Acquah damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Harrison Annan had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Inter Allies were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Baba Schlupp
17 goals and a season average of 7.28 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market8 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hasaacas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Gyimah 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Oskar Lipiński and Hasaacas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match30 Jan 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against Bechem United, and it could have been more.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
A brace, and Harrison Annan takes the afternoon — 8.33
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Harrison Annan provided it, and the 8.33 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market1 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Jan 2027
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hasaacas and Bechem United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Bernard Inusah 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.
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Steady
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Amos Djiku: 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.” Hasaacas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market25 Jan 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hasaacas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Bernard Inusah 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Afriyie Acquah 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Hasaacas will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Boardroom18 Jan 2027
“This is a club with real history, and I did not have to think about it for long.” The new manager takes charge with every slate wiped clean.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match16 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for Hasaacas
1‑4 against Liberty Professionals, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market18 Jan 2027
“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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market18 Jan 2027
The name of Gladson Amoah has come up in conversations Hasaacas were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Edwin Gyimah 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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
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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Boardroom11 Jan 2027
The compensation was agreed inside a week and the club has lost a manager it had no intention of losing. Hasaacas start again, and start behind.
Market11 Jan 2027
$170.0K. No player has ever cost Hasaacas more, and expectation arrives with him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
57 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A brace, and Baba Schlupp takes the afternoon — 8.97
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Baba Schlupp provided it, and the 8.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Market11 Jan 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
17 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market11 Jan 2027
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Wa All Stars for Afriyie Boateng 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.
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Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match2 Jan 2027
Beaten 2‑5 by Wa All Stars, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.09, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market4 Jan 2027
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Asante Kotoko for Baba Schlupp 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.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Bourg-Peronnas have made their interest known and Hasaacas have to have a conversation they never wanted. A manager other clubs ask about is a manager whose next contract costs more.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Hasaacas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Dec 2026
Aduana Stars will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Hasaacas were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match28 Dec 2026
Hasaacas up to position 3
39 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market28 Dec 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Hasaacas did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
14 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Gyimah 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Baba Schlupp 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
78 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Dec 2026
4‑1, and Bernard Inusah took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Hasaacas tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad21 Dec 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market21 Dec 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Hasaacas did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Bernard Inusah was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.41. 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Bernard Inusah 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 terraces21 Dec 2026
At 23 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.
In brief
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Match
Another one collected away from home
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Player ratings
A masterclass from Afriyie Acquah
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Squad
Tempers go at Hasaacas
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
85 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Alassane Coulibaly 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Inusah 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Baba Schlupp is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.20 with 13 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match5 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against WAFA, and it could have been more.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Dec 2026
Hasaacas make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Hasaacas have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Edwin Gyimah 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Baba Schlupp at his very best
Marked 8.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hasaacas.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 8.17 — 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.
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Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
99 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market30 Nov 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.
Match30 Nov 2026
Hasaacas are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 29 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match28 Nov 2026
Hasaacas 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Alassane Coulibaly 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Gyimah 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Baba Schlupp. 2‑1 against Hearts of Oak, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Afriyie Acquah was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.03. 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
106 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Nov 2026
3‑0, and Baba Schlupp took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Hasaacas tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.68, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings23 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Afriyie Acquah 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Ashanti Gold tried to reorganise, Hasaacas did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Assists: 3, and a hand in more besides. The scorers will get the back pages; he will get the drinks bought for him.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bernard Inusah 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edwin Gyimah 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 terraces16 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Afriyie Acquah 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Heart of Lions made Hasaacas work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Harrison Annan was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.31. 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Afriyie Acquah was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.11. 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. 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
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Acquah
120 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hasaacas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Edwin Gyimah 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
1‑2 to Berekum Chelsea, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.