The Great Olympics Gazette
Squad27 Sep 2027
The knee: Chizoba Amaefule out for 20 days
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Great Olympics lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Edwin Gyimah out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Great Olympics will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
No sign of nerves from Nana Inusah at 17 — 7.63
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nana Inusah did not need any: 7.63, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market27 Sep 2027
Michael Acquaye is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Great Olympics is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match25 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Great Olympics
4 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Great Olympics
Sylvester Igboun and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match25 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for Great Olympics against Hasaacas
1‑3 to Hasaacas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Great Olympics
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eric Oteng was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Jonathan Ayew faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jonathan Ayew after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Patrick Ofori
- Looking ahead Gladson Awako faces his old club
- The dugout Carlos Ohene does not fit this one