The Ashanti Gold Sentinel
Player ratings24 Jan 2033
Vintage Thomas Agyepong — 8.87
At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.87, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match22 Jan 2033
At last: Ashanti Gold win one
7 matches without a win, and then this, against New Edubiase United. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad24 Jan 2033
Words exchanged at Ashanti Gold
Isaac Hemans 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.
Squad24 Jan 2033
Words at Ashanti Gold training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Boadu 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.
Market24 Jan 2033
Inter Allies watching Kwame Essien
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ashanti Gold have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match22 Jan 2033
Selasie Bakai sends Ashanti Gold past New Edubiase United
It finished 2‑1, and it was Selasie Bakai’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ashanti Gold.
Player ratings24 Jan 2033
A masterclass from Selasie Bakai
Marked 8.27 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout24 Jan 2033
Interim Coach: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
Player ratings24 Jan 2033
Manuel Mantey beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
In brief
- The dugout Mohammed Fatau does not fit this one
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Harrison Atiemo
- Squad Jonathan Afful makes his debut at 18