The Ashanti Gold Sentinel
Match25 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten Ashanti Gold
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Nqobani Biyela keeps Ashanti Gold in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Ashanti Gold
Nicolas Nkoulou 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Evans Mensah in the eights
A performance of 9.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match25 Sep 2027
Ashanti Gold find a way past Inter Allies
Inter Allies made Ashanti Gold work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad27 Sep 2027
No hiding place for Torric Jebrin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Torric Jebrin, and the manager let it.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Ashanti Gold lose Jonathan Atiemo
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Thomas Agyepong runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
The cruellest goal, and it is Michel Babatunde's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Ashanti Gold will not try tonight.
In brief
- Market The Samuel Tetteh story refuses to die
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Evans Mensah
- The terraces Evans Mensah has his own song now