Marked for Patrick Inusah
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom4 Feb 2036
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Jonathan Inusah has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Match2 Feb 2036
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around New Edubiase United are no longer polite ones.
Squad4 Feb 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at New Edubiase United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Feb 2036
Heart of Lions left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Feb 2036
No place for Samuel Amofa on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at New Edubiase United pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad4 Feb 2036
Edmund Ofori 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.
Squad4 Feb 2036
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Boardroom4 Feb 2036
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Player ratings4 Feb 2036
Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match24 Nov 2035
The run now stands at 49, and the questions being asked around New Edubiase United are no longer polite ones.
The terraces26 Nov 2035
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match26 Nov 2035
2 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad26 Nov 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at New Edubiase United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Nov 2035
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match24 Nov 2035
0‑1 to BA All Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Boardroom13 Aug 2035
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.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Gideon Iliya 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.
Squad13 Aug 2035
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Inusah, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad18 Jun 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Yeboah
96 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. New Edubiase United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom18 Jun 2035
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.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Patrick Inusah: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” New Edubiase United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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Squad7 May 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Yeboah
138 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. New Edubiase United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom7 May 2035
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.
Boardroom7 May 2035
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad7 May 2035
Abdul Amoah: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” New Edubiase United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 May 2035
Gideon Iliya 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.
Squad7 May 2035
The medical room confirms 41 days on the sidelines for Patrick Inusah, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Squad30 Apr 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Yeboah
145 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. New Edubiase United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Apr 2035
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” New Edubiase United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Apr 2035
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.
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Match10 Feb 2035
The run now stands at 29, and the questions being asked around New Edubiase United are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Feb 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohammed Galadima
130 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. New Edubiase United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Feb 2035
A 0‑7 beating by Hasaacas was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad12 Feb 2035
A one-man rearguard from Edmund Amoah
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match10 Feb 2035
Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad12 Feb 2035
Gideon Iliya 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.
Match10 Feb 2035
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about New Edubiase United and Hasaacas in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad12 Feb 2035
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gideon Iliya, and the manager let it.
Boardroom12 Feb 2035
Nobody left the New Edubiase United dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.