The Plateau United Sentinel
Squad4 Jan 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for John Amah
61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Plateau United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad4 Jan 2038
Favour Aputaziem breaks a bone — 60 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match2 Jan 2038
Still nobody has beaten Plateau United
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market4 Jan 2038
Kano Pillars come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Plateau United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2038
The season belongs to Jean François Popess Manguele
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Plateau United have had the benefit of it.
Boardroom4 Jan 2038
Chidozie Awaziem signs on for the long haul
Plateau United moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Chidozie Awaziem, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Squad4 Jan 2038
John Amah 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 Plateau United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom4 Jan 2038
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Plateau United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market4 Jan 2038
One of our own: Peter Eze joins the Plateau United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Eze is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Plateau United promote Oghenekaro Madu from within
- Market Olayinka Ogunjobi steps up from the Plateau United academy
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Maren Kefas at his very best