Marked for Jeffrey Asante
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces26 Apr 2027
Anger at WAFA spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom26 Apr 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.
Squad26 Apr 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
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Squad
César Ayón still has not settled
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Squad
Jeffrey Asante asks for a word with the manager
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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
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 66. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 6 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jeffrey Asante is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
In brief
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Squad
Tempers go at WAFA
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Words at WAFA training over how hard people work
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A bad afternoon for WAFA against Wa All Stars
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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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Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 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.
Squad7 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.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at WAFA
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ashanti Gold left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kwadwo Paintsil 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emmanuel Ayew 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.