The Ghana premier football league is getting more exciting as surprise results keep coming every week. It is said that without surprise results and setbacks, football and for that matter sports in general, will cease to be an attraction. It is therefore… more »

Wayne Rooney of England and Manchester United is famous worldwide for his prolific goal scoring ability. You can hardly describe him as a dribbler but he has managed to completely dribble the football world over the past few days with his announcement to quit United and the sudden somersault of renewing his contract to remain at Old Trafford till at least 2015. more »

When the Ghana Football Association (GFA) had that avalanche of applicants all wishing to fill the vacant position of Black Stars coach created by the sudden departure of Serbian Milovan Rajevac, I chuckled.What ran through my mind was an old childhood proverb which literally translated says “when a hole is created on the anthill all kinds of animals flock into it”.I had that ominous feeling that the recent successes chalked by the Black Stars may be giving the wrong signals that any self-styled coach can handle the team with ease. That is the conclusion I can draw for the long list of people with no proven track record of coaching success who boldly claimed the right to handle the 2010 World Cup quarter finalists. more »

Football historians are still searching for the last time a Premier league match in Ghana was called off as a result of a clash of jerseys of the teams. The drama at Berekum last Wednesday where the top fixture between the local Arsenal and Kumasi Asante Kotoko had to be cancelled because of a clash of jerseys has roundly been condemned by football commentators as a big dent on the image of the premier league and to large extent Ghana football in general. more »

Ghana entered four disciplines- athletics, boxing, table tennis and weightlifting for the Melbourne Games in Australia 2006 and returned home with two gold medals and a bronze.Majeti Fetrie gave Ghana a surprise gold in weightlifting, long jumper Ignatius Gaisah got the second gold and heavyweight boxer Awusome Yekini won bronze. more »

For the first time Ghana entered five sports disciplines- athletics, boxing, badminton, judo and weightlifting but won only one medal, a bronze by young Margaret Simpson in the heptathlon with a total of 5906 points. Margaret Simpson was the brightest… more »

Ghana competed in badminton for the first time in addition to the traditional disciplines of boxing and athletics. It was a disastrous debut for badminton as Ghana lost all three games 5-0 to South Africa, 5-0 to Mauritius and 5-0 to New Zealand. Onc… more »

The 2010 Commonwealth Games has opened in New Dehli,India on the 3rd October 2010, so it is important the world is told the story of Ghana’s history at the Commonwealth Games since 1954 hence the rush to complete the essay. Please bear with me. Here we go more »