David Appiah

Defensive Midfielder - Wa All Stars U18
2 Feb 2029
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121 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Match

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.

Match

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 dugout

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 dugout

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 ratings

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

Back issues
118 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A 3-goal lead gone for Wa All Stars

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Ashanti Gold kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Wa All Stars will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings

Christian Boakye runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ifeanyi Ihemekwele 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.

Squad

Words at Wa All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nana Kwame 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 dugout

Kwame Essien 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Nana Kwame

Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Amos Boateng in the eights

A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Wa All Stars and Ashanti Gold take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Wa All Stars

Something was said to Ifeanyi Ihemekwele and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

91 Edition

The Wa All Stars Courier

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mohammed Afful 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 Wa All Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Odah Marshall 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.

Squad

Kelvin Andoh 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.

The dugout

Andrew Boakye 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 dugout

A door opens for Ifeanyi Ihemekwele

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

Mohammed Afful 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 Wa All Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief