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Marked for Baba Baba

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The Heart of Lions Herald

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces6 Dec 2027

The mood at Heart of Lions 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.

Squad6 Dec 2027

A falling-out at Heart of Lions

Yaw Amankwa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad6 Dec 2027

A row about effort at Heart of Lions

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johnson Amuzu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match4 Dec 2027

Medeama take the points off Heart of Lions

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Kwadwo Boakye signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kwadwo Boakye commits to Heart of Lions for another 1 years.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Felix Bukari left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad6 Dec 2027

A place in the month's best eleven for Baba Baba

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Baba Baba has come out of that comparison in the side, and Heart of Lions have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Player ratings6 Dec 2027

Yaw Amankwa was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

Anthony Owusu 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.

In brief

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The Heart of Lions Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces24 May 2027

Supporters organise against the Heart of Lions board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom24 May 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Heart of Lions

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market24 May 2027

Ruben Hennessy asks to leave Heart of Lions

“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.

Squad24 May 2027

Ebenezer Abban 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 May 2027

Tempers go at Heart of Lions

Kwesi Pong 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.

The dugout24 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Anthony Owusu

“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.

The dugout24 May 2027

Lawrence Osei knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Heart of Lions, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout24 May 2027

Chauncy Freeman has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Chauncy Freeman has written the date down.

Squad24 May 2027

Questions about Danso Wiredu on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief