Albert Partey

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Heart of Lions
11 Nov 2032
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320 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

13 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market13 Sep 2032

Felix Acquah is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Heart of Lions is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad13 Sep 2032

Ishmael Addo 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 Heart of Lions this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings13 Sep 2032

Nobody could get near Ishmael Addo

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad13 Sep 2032

Words at Heart of Lions training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kane Vincent-Young 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.

Match11 Sep 2032

Heart of Lions come up short against Wa All Stars

Wa All Stars left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad13 Sep 2032

Macaulley Kuma 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

Back issues
310 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

5 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Jul 2032

Kwame Acquah damages knee ligaments — 59 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad5 Jul 2032

Tempers go at Heart of Lions

Kane Vincent-Young 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.

Squad5 Jul 2032

Kwadwo Obeng Junior 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.

Boardroom5 Jul 2032

Intake day at the Heart of Lions academy

7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

Market5 Jul 2032

Humaid Fuseini told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Humaid Fuseini has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Heart of Lions.

Squad5 Jul 2032

Ishmael Addo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Heart of Lions 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.

In brief

297 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

5 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Apr 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kwadwo Obeng Junior

44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Heart of Lions lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad5 Apr 2032

10 seasons of Kwesi Pong

248 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Heart of Lions know what they have.

Squad5 Apr 2032

Anis Aït-Amarat signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anis Aït-Amarat and Heart of Lions agree another 2 years.

In brief

245 Edition

The Heart of Lions Herald

7 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Apr 2031

Enea Likaj 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.

Squad7 Apr 2031

Taoufik Safsafi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Taoufik Safsafi and Heart of Lions agree another 2 years.

Squad7 Apr 2031

Yassine Abdelali 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 Heart of Lions this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Apr 2031

Kane Vincent-Young 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.

Squad7 Apr 2031

Etse Dogli is still paying for one afternoon at Heart of Lions

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market7 Apr 2031

The Kwadwo Obeng Junior talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Heart of Lions know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief