The WAFA Post
The terraces6 Sep 2027
The mood at WAFA has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market6 Sep 2027
Agustín Sandoval 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 WAFA can pretend not to have heard.
Match4 Sep 2027
5 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Benjamin Twum at WAFA
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Benjamin Twum is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
A first appearance Andre Sulemana will want to forget — 5.65
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.65, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at WAFA
Bruninho 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at WAFA
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match4 Sep 2027
The goals have deserted WAFA
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at WAFA can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Felix Appiah 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.
In brief
- Market WAFA promote Nana Bukari from within
- Market Andre Sulemana steps up from the WAFA academy
- Market One of our own: Amos Boakye joins the WAFA first team