The WAFA Post
Match8 Mar 2031
After 11 games, WAFA finally taste it again
The first defeat in 11 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Berekum Chelsea; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Market10 Mar 2031
Only the photograph left for Andrew Afful
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrew Afful will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match8 Mar 2031
A bad afternoon for WAFA against Berekum Chelsea
1‑2 to Berekum Chelsea, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Mar 2031
A row about effort at WAFA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amos Addo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Words exchanged at WAFA
Thomas Ofori 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.
The dugout10 Mar 2031
The manager makes an example of Mohammed Aminu
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings10 Mar 2031
Gladson Appiah beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Jeffrey Asante signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jeffrey Asante commits to WAFA for another 3 years.
The dugout10 Mar 2031
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Albert Ayew left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- The dugout Jonathan Asante has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Afriyie Paintsil, 18, is the weekend’s best young player
- Looking ahead Jayson Nettey faces his old club