Patrick Afful

Defensive Midfielder - BA All Stars
1 Jan 2036
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Patrick Afful

490 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

17 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Chastening afternoon for BA All Stars

A 0‑4 beating by Hasaacas was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

A fracture rules Joseph Acquah out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BA All Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Amos Inusah 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at BA All Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gladson Asante 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.

Player ratings

Patrick Afful runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Paul Magit

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Magit, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
459 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

14 May 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Abdul Appiah: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” BA All Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Thomas Mohammed breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Patrick Afful out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Patrick Afful, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

403 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

17 Apr 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Amos Inusah

97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. BA All Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Patrick Afful says BA All Stars went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

BA All Stars count the cost of losing Abdul Essien

44 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief