The WAFA Post
The terraces4 Sep 2034
Anger at WAFA spills outside the ground
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.
Match2 Sep 2034
Nowhere to hide for WAFA
1‑5 against Ashanti Gold, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Boardroom4 Sep 2034
Samuel Kudus has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at WAFA can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom4 Sep 2034
The WAFA board call everybody in
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.
Match2 Sep 2034
7 matches without a win for WAFA
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.
Squad4 Sep 2034
Edmund Acquah keeps WAFA 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.
Match2 Sep 2034
WAFA are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match2 Sep 2034
Samuel Djiku among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Samuel Djiku on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of WAFA and Ashanti Gold.
Boardroom4 Sep 2034
Graduation day at WAFA
11 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Squad Mohammed Ayew falls out with a teammate over standards
- Squad Christian Tonah in a row with a teammate
- Market One of our own: Amos Baba joins the WAFA first team