Supporters of Manchester United worldwide are never short of their Christmas boxes. Alex Ferguson has always seen to it that tradition does not lose its bearings. Despite the unusually huge loss of points at this point of the league by their own standards, United have proved that they are the real masters of the game during the yuletide and they will not surrender the title without a good fight. more »

Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s beleaguered coach Paa Kwasi Fabin joins his two other counterparts in the English Premiership, Benitez of Liverpool and Manchester City’s Roberto Mancini in celebrating very momentous victories during the yuletide. more »

Now one can make a good guess of what’s on the mind of new Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini following his team’s magnificent 2-0 victory over Stoke City. The Italian had been suiting on thorns prior to his debut with City but now he is definitely on cloud nine and his pan to place City in the top four is on course. more »

ive in the English football terrain if he fails to make an impressive start. more »

So much attention has been focused on the poor performance of traditional league winners Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak that the meteoric rise of unsung Wa All Stars has been ignored by the media. The star starved team from the Upper West capital of Wa, have won four matches on the trot in the past weeks and occupy a respectable third position on the table leaving the veteran league campaigners to struggle for survival. more »

Let’s shed tears for Mark Hughes because managers of English Premier Club Manchester City are fast becoming endangered species. The determination of successive owners of City to halt the supremacy of rivals, Manchester United is so high that undue pressure is put on managers to shine in the shortest possible time. A couple of seasons ago ,Sven Goran Eriksson led City to set a hot pace but since he crumbled in the end he was subsequently booted out .Even though his successor Mark Hughes did not show any wonders, he was given more polished tools to work with in the second season. more »

In Ghana, it had looked like all attention was being focused on the World Cup in South Africa. The Cup of Nations in Angola did not appear to matter until Coach Milovan Rajevac named his final squad during the week and now the selection has become a major topic for discussion and people have realized that Angola is just around the corner. more »

Charles Kumi Gyamfi, Ghana’s celebrated ex-international footballer and former national coach says Ghana should not expect any favours in the upcoming World Cup in South Africa. “In 2006 World Cup, Ghana was an unknown quantity and they might have been treated with kid gloves. Now that they are in top reckoning, opposition will be tough this time round”, the veteran football connoisseur told me in an exclusive interview in Accra. more »

Liverpool manager Benitez is facing a really troubling period. His team is now most unstable and he probably needs to change his tactics. When he managed to beat close rivals Manchester United, most us thought he was on his way to recovery after those four successive defeats more »

The Premier soccer league of Ghana is resuming this weekend after a short disruption by a Jehovah Witness International convention that took over three major sports stadiums in Accra, Kumasi and Sekondi. Football fans were not particularly enthused that a religious sect perceived to have no respect for state authority of the national flag should be allowed the use of sate property and in the process disrupting a national programme. more »

A cross section of Ghanaians interviewed after the 2010 World Cup draw in South Africa have expressed relief that for the first time in many international competitions, Ghana has not been placed in the so called group of death. A quick survey downtown in Accra, the capital city talking to the ordinary Ghanaian football fan gave the impression that it was not a particularly tough group playing Australia, Germany and Serbia .in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. more »

The request by the Republic of Ireland to FIFA to grant them an extra place in the upcoming World Cup in South Africa is to my mind, funny. I sympathise with the Irish for the bad goal they conceded against France but I think the matter must be put to rest. It must be taken as one of those strange things that happen in football when the best team never always wins. more »

Ghana Football Association boss Kwesi Nyantakyi is on record as saying that he would love to see the end of the duo monopoly of the national soccer league by Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak. The two clubs have between them won 43 of the 50 championships and football purists are all yearning to see a new face on the league trophy for a change. more »