Patrick Afful

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Great Olympics
19 Apr 2036
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The Great Olympics Gazette

14 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Jan 2036

Shayibu Abubakari breaks a bone — 103 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market14 Jan 2036

Terms done: Jonathan Owusu is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Heart of Lions waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Great Olympics is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market14 Jan 2036

Heart of Lions come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Great Olympics did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market14 Jan 2036

Patrick Afful puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Great Olympics, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets14 Jan 2036

Great Olympics make their move for Samuel Essien

$72.0K on the table at BA All Stars. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad14 Jan 2036

Shayibu Abubakari in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Great Olympics this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets14 Jan 2036

Door shut on Abeiku Sulemana

Great Olympics asked and Liberty Professionals said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match12 Jan 2036

Berekum Chelsea take the points off Great Olympics

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout14 Jan 2036

Edmund Partey 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.

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The Great Olympics Gazette

23 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match21 Apr 2035

Nowhere to hide for Great Olympics

2‑5 against Inter Allies, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match23 Apr 2035

Great Olympics finish in position 13

27 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad23 Apr 2035

Lawrence Osei keeps Great Olympics in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings23 Apr 2035

Baba Baba, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.79

A mark of 7.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match21 Apr 2035

No clean sheets in sight for Great Olympics

6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad23 Apr 2035

Tempers go at Great Olympics

Shayibu Abubakari 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.

Match21 Apr 2035

7 goals as Great Olympics and Inter Allies go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Great Olympics and Inter Allies, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Boardroom23 Apr 2035

Inquest at Great Olympics

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.

The dugout23 Apr 2035

the manager answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

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