Marked for Thomas Appiah
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against Wa All Stars, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.79, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Thomas Appiah, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60
A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market21 Sep 2026
Daniel Kyereh hands in a written request
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Hasaacas make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Hasaacas have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Dele Israel scored one and made one — 7.97
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.97, and 2 involvements.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Amos Kudus runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dele Israel 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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Triumph
Match12 Sep 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Hasaacas scored in the 98th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad14 Sep 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.12, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Amos Kudus
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Hasaacas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Christian Kudus. 5‑4 against Aduana Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.50, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dele Israel 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 terraces14 Sep 2026
At 20 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.
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Triumph
Squad7 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Christian Kudus, whose 7 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match5 Sep 2026
BA All Stars will want this one forgotten quickly: 10‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Hasaacas were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A debut Thomas Appiah will not forget — 9.19
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 2 on the scoresheet, 9.19 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Hasaacas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Hasaacas and BA All Stars, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Christian Kudus was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.75. 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Hasaacas
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dele Israel 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
Market31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yaw Boateng is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market31 Aug 2026
Isaac Partey has left for WAFA in a $160.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Hasaacas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Hasaacas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dele Israel 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Hasaacas
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Baba Acquah hands in a written request
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dele Israel 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yaw Ofori 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mário Junior has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Hasaacas know it, and so does everybody who watches him.