There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.62 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Edmond Sindjo takes the afternoon — 9.01
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Edmond Sindjo provided it, and the 9.01 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Frédéric Yenang is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Jean Hugues Eyango and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Colombe du Dja et Lobo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Arthur Yene and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Colombe du Dja et Lobo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Randy Ntume 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.
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Fauve Azur Elite had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Jean Hugues Eyango and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Randy Ntume was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Colombe du Dja et Lobo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Edmond Sindjo signs something — a contract at Colombe du Dja et Lobo or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emmanuel Kunde has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.