Marked for Edgar Song
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Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.46 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.70, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market27 Sep 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around PWD Bamenda they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match25 Sep 2027
Nobody wants to play PWD Bamenda right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The step up is real for Edgar Song
At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Wasiu Falolu 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kufre Eta 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 terraces27 Sep 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ali Nsangou has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Match10 Oct 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for PWD Bamenda
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Cotonsport Garoua kept coming because nothing stopped them, and PWD Bamenda will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
What a way to start for Edgar Song — 7.86
0 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.86 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 7.86 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alvin Binsto is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Wasiu Falolu 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 PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 PWD Bamenda, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and PWD Bamenda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Terence Ambe Ngufor 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Stade Malien: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edgar Song and PWD Bamenda agree another 3 years.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Abdoullahi Sabo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at PWD Bamenda would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edgar Song, and the manager let it.