The WAFA Post
Player ratings23 Oct 2045
Age has not caught Abraham Atiemo yet — 8.21
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.21 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match21 Oct 2045
WAFA come up short against Asante Kotoko
Asante Kotoko left with the points after a 3‑5 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match21 Oct 2045
Nobody could stop scoring
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about WAFA and Asante Kotoko in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad23 Oct 2045
Omar El Azab 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.
Squad23 Oct 2045
Patrick Djiku out for 14 days
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Patrick Djiku, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad23 Oct 2045
Thomas Acquah 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.
Player ratings23 Oct 2045
Andre Wakaso turns it into his own net
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. WAFA deserved better, and so did he.
Squad23 Oct 2045
Tempers go at WAFA
Samuel Inusah 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.
Player ratings23 Oct 2045
Kwadwo Gyan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Boardroom WAFA keep producing them
- Market The Mohammed Ofori story refuses to die
- Player ratings Amos Djiku ran the game