Marked for Daniel Mohammed
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 57. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match2 Oct 2027
No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WAFA has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Amos Nuhu commits to WAFA for another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Patrick Partey 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.
Market4 Oct 2027
Baba Inusah is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at WAFA has been clear about where Baba Inusah stands, which is more than many ever get.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad6 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Partey
19 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Chastening afternoon for WAFA
A 1‑4 beating by Ashanti Gold was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Afriyie Boakye out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Mohammed is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad6 Sep 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at WAFA
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market6 Sep 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christian Amoah has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market6 Sep 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Abdul Inusah has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Partey
47 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.
Match9 Aug 2027
WAFA are in real trouble now
Position 14, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Afriyie Boakye out for 54 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Mohammed is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad9 Aug 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market9 Aug 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Edmund Essien’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Match17 May 2027
WAFA are in real trouble now
Position 14, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad17 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” WAFA may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad17 May 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Squad12 Apr 2027
A season average of 7.09 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. WAFA know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad12 Apr 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Bernard Asamoah 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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
WAFA sink to position 14
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Felix Mensah, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.22
A mark of 8.22 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Felix Sulemana 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 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jeffrey Asante is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Asamoah 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.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for WAFA
1‑4 against Liberty Professionals, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bernard Paintsil: 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to WAFA's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WAFA has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Mohammed is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Felix Sulemana 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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the WAFA dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Ashanti Gold to sit and watch. I want to come back to WAFA and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Felix Mensah at 21 — 8.17
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Felix Mensah did not need any: 8.17, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Mohammed is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at WAFA
Felix Sulemana 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Amos Nuhu 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 Sep 2026
WAFA supporters have found a favourite in Felix Mensah
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Felix Mensah 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.