The Wa All Stars Courier
Squad20 Nov 2028
Wa All Stars count the cost of losing Amos Boateng
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Thomas Bukari 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 Wa All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Nana Kwame 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.
Player ratings20 Nov 2028
Christian Boakye in the eights
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match18 Nov 2028
Wa All Stars refuse to lose to Asante Kotoko
A point taken on 93 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Match18 Nov 2028
Wa All Stars and Asante Kotoko take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout20 Nov 2028
Thomas Bukari has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Wa All Stars will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout20 Nov 2028
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Isaac Acquah chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings20 Nov 2028
Nobody could get near Joseph Asamoah
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Looking ahead Amadu Abdulai faces his old club
- Squad David Appiah makes his debut at 18
- The dugout Odah Marshall asks for a word with the manager