The Heart of Lions Herald
Player ratings24 Dec 2035
Moses Agbo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 58. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Dec 2035
Ebenezer Abban breaks a bone — 25 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings24 Dec 2035
Kwesi Pong, 35, rolls back the years — 8.29
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.29 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad24 Dec 2035
Tempers go at Heart of Lions
Kwesi Pong 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.
Squad24 Dec 2035
Ishmael Addo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match22 Dec 2035
Heart of Lions find a way past Wa All Stars
Wa All Stars made Heart of Lions work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings24 Dec 2035
A masterclass from Seedorf Asante
Marked 8.17 — 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.
Player ratings24 Dec 2035
Ninety minutes of Ishmael Addo at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Heart of Lions.
Squad24 Dec 2035
Patrick Ayew stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Patrick Ayew and Heart of Lions agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Boardroom The Heart of Lions board put their names to it
- The terraces Kwesi Pong has his own song now