Boxer incarnate Muhammad Ali, the colourful world heavyweight champion at his bragging best in his youthful days when he visited Ghana in 1964, told a cheering crowd at an exhibition bout at Accra Stadium that he was so fast that even a slow movie camera could not correctly project the speed of his punches. Asked how he could withstand the murderous punches of Charles Sonny Liston, the fearsome bad man of boxing Ali retorted “how you can you hit a thing you can’t see”? more »

One of my fond memories of the 1988 Seoul Olympics in Korea was an inscription I saw on a colourful T-shirt, worn by an attractive African- American lady at the Games Village. It read “Try, if you don’t succeed, lower your standards”. I regard this as quite a profound message and it has tickled me since then. I would like to recommend this advice to the Ghana Football Association in their new search for TV sponsorship for the premier league. I may be wrong but my suspicion is that the league is overrated. more »

Media reports depict that there are some behind the scene moves by certain interest groups to get the premier league increased from 16 to 20 clubs.This is happening on the eve of the Ghana Football Association congress to ratify the relegation of three clubs from the Premier League and endorse the qualification of three oth more »

Top division football clubs in Ghana are known for their captivating names. Apart from a few indigenous names like Asante Kotoko, Abuakwa Susu Biribi, Wassaman, Bofoakwa Tano and Adansiman, there are exciting English names like Accra Hearts of Oak, Cape Coast Venomous Vipers, Cape Coast Mysterious Dwarfs and Sekondi Eleven Wise. Incidentally all the above mentioned clubs are referred to as traditional clubs. more »

The 2007-2008 Premier Football league of Ghana may have officially ended on Sunday July 6th but judging from the not too past history of this national pastime the end is yet to come. The relegation exercise has always created problems and there have been… more »