Ola Umar

Left Forward - New Edubiase United
1 Jan 2036
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ola Umar

436 Edition

The New Edubiase United Gazette

4 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for New Edubiase United

19 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

New Edubiase United leaking at the back

11 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match

New Edubiase United taken apart

0‑4 to Aduana Stars, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Boardroom

New Edubiase United put Jonathan Inusah on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at New Edubiase United

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at New Edubiase United is running low.

Match

8 matches without a goal for New Edubiase United

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 8 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Tempers go at New Edubiase United

Adeyemo Bolaji 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.

Squad

Samuel Amofa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

Inquest at New Edubiase United

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief