Marked for Patrick Partey
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces1 Mar 2027
The mood at WAFA has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the WAFA boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match27 Feb 2027
8 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Felix Mensah at 21 — 8.00
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Felix Mensah did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad1 Mar 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.
Squad1 Mar 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Patrick Partey
“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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market11 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at WAFA, and 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
Match9 Jan 2027
It needed Patrick Partey to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Aduana Stars, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
The terraces4 Jan 2027
The mood at WAFA has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match2 Jan 2027
No mercy from WAFA
BA All Stars will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. WAFA were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A brace, and Amos Asante takes the afternoon — 8.15
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Amos Asante provided it, and the 8.15 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at WAFA
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at WAFA is running low.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Age has not caught Patrick Partey yet — 7.92
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market4 Jan 2027
Hasaacas come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and WAFA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market4 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.
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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
6 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between WAFA and Ashanti Gold, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match19 Dec 2026
2‑4 to Ashanti Gold, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Partey, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.39 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. WAFA told Gladson Bukari something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Felix Mensah, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.23
A mark of 8.23 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Kwame Partey has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around WAFA they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Kwame Partey has agreed to leave WAFA for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
At 21 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Felix Mensah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WAFA.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Kwadwo Acquah
“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.
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Uneasy
Match2 Nov 2026
WAFA sink to position 15
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match31 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Patrick Partey
“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.
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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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Crisis
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Oct 2026
WAFA out of the cup
Medeama ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
WAFA are taken apart by Medeama — and the town wants answers
It finished 1-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amos Nuhu 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Great Olympics, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Doors closed at WAFA
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at WAFA, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 58. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Aduana Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Baba Inusah 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Andre Asamoah, 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Kwame Partey to New Edubiase United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to WAFA with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
WAFA come up short against Medeama
Medeama left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every WAFA game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at New Edubiase United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Patrick Partey knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Patrick Partey trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Jeffrey Asante, 19 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Felix Sulemana again, and this time the name on the line is Real Salt Lake. WAFA are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Patrick Partey commits to WAFA for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 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.