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 »