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Steady
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Alvin Binsto 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten PWD Bamenda
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match26 Dec 2026
PWD Bamenda make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. El Mehdi Karnass is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Alvin Binsto has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Carlos Muela breaks a bone — 20 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Terence Ambe Ngufor 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Silas Nwankwo. 1‑0 against Fortuna Mfou, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 59. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. El Mehdi Karnass is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Dec 2026
PWD Bamenda make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A mark of 7.91, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 67. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Carlos Muela breaks a bone — 36 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A brace, and Silas Nwankwo takes the afternoon — 8.50
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Silas Nwankwo provided it, and the 8.50 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Febe Fritz Gilles, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92
A mark of 7.92 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Carlos Muela 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 PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
El Mehdi Karnass 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.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match5 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Silas Nwankwo. 2‑0 against Fauve Azur Elite, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Bogard Agbor
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bogard Agbor has come out of that comparison in the side, and PWD Bamenda have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Carlos Muela breaks a bone — 43 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad30 Nov 2026
El Mehdi Karnass 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Carlos Muela breaks a bone — 50 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” PWD Bamenda may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
El Mehdi Karnass 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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Nov 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. PWD Bamenda scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” PWD Bamenda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Alvin Binsto 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 PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Junior Nguimbat. 1‑0 against Panthere du Nde, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to PWD Bamenda's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at PWD Bamenda has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. El Mehdi Karnass is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at PWD Bamenda
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Oct 2026
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
El Mehdi Karnass 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Terence Ambe Ngufor 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alvin Binsto 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 88 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Omar El Mansouri, 35, rolls back the years — 8.17
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.17 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 95 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Oct 2026
2‑2 against Gazelle Garoua, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ali Nsangou, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.05
A mark of 8.05 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yaya Aluyu is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Carlos Muela 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 PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
El Mehdi Karnass 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.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Ali Nsangou
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now PWD Bamenda have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
El Mehdi Karnass 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kadad Ning Che is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 109 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Paul Ombolo is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Aigle Royal de la Menoua, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdoullahi Sabo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elton Ndzeryuy is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Alvin Binsto 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. El Mehdi Karnass is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Carlos Muela breaks a bone — 124 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 124 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nchanji Nfor is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Terence Ambe Ngufor 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad14 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and PWD Bamenda are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 64. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 132 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Panthere du Nde moved on, Patrick Clovert reports back to PWD Bamenda, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
2 academy players handed senior numbers at PWD Bamenda
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Georges Bekale has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market7 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stephane Ondoa has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alvin Binsto 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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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Muela out for 139 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PWD Bamenda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 PWD Bamenda, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Carlos Muela 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 PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Ali Nsangou hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what PWD Bamenda can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
El Mehdi Karnass 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 Aug 2026
Abdoullahi Sabo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Celsinho has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. PWD Bamenda know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market24 Aug 2026
At 38, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdoullahi Sabo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
El Mehdi Karnass 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. PWD Bamenda know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad10 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and PWD Bamenda are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nchanji Nfor has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at PWD Bamenda.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fon Boris Kache and PWD Bamenda agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Abdoullahi Sabo 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. PWD Bamenda know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.