The Berekum Chelsea Gazette
Market7 Sep 2026
Ebenezer Shamo 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 Berekum Chelsea can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Kelvin Andoh runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Berekum Chelsea
Ebenezer Assifuah 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Berekum Chelsea
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Rodrigo Godoy 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Andrew Afful steps up from the Berekum Chelsea academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrew Afful has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market7 Sep 2026
Andrew Sulemana steps up from the Berekum Chelsea academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrew Sulemana has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market7 Sep 2026
Jonathan Addo steps up from the Berekum Chelsea academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan Addo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Rahman Abdul was the difference for Berekum Chelsea
Marked 7.58. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
In brief
- Squad Berekum Chelsea pick somebody else ahead of Ospina Egbe
- Match Berekum Chelsea and Wa All Stars take a point apiece
- Boardroom Berekum Chelsea turn down the training-ground plan