The BA All Stars Gazette
Squad4 Sep 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Clinton N'jie
153 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.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
Isaac Annan: 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.
Market4 Sep 2028
Sipho Ngqakabana puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at BA All Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Deadline passes with 5 signed and 17 gone
That is the business done at BA All Stars until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Match2 Sep 2028
BA All Stars make home a hard place to visit
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Ayodele Akinyemi has agreed to leave BA All Stars for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Edmund Sulemana 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.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
5 academy graduates step up at BA All Stars
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A row about effort at BA All Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samba Sissoko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for BA All Stars against Hasaacas
- Market One of our own: Albert Asante joins the BA All Stars first team
- Market Abdul Mensah steps up from the BA All Stars academy