Category: Ghana Premier League

Look Out For Crowded Premier League Season

July 20th, 2009
The chairman of the Ghana Premier League Board("PLB"), Welbeck Abra-Appiah, says he expects a crowded league programme next season in view of the Africa Cup of Nations and the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. “We would have to complete the league before the World Cup begins”, he told a radio interviewer in Accra moments after the last matches of the 2008-2009 league on Sunday that saw Accra Hearts of Oak winning their 20th league title with an expected 2-0 win over bottom club Sporting Mirren at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra. more »

Bizzare End To Exciting League

July 14th, 2009
It is unfortunate that the exciting premier league should be marred by crowd violence at some centres towards the end of the tournament. This habit of irate fans destroying stadium seats at the least provocation must be stopped. It is most unsporting and those who destroyed chairs at the Obuasi Len Clay Stadium during the Ashgold-Asante Kotoko penultimate league match on Sunday should be found out and punished. more »

Ghana's Premier League To The Wire

July 6th, 2009
This is definitely not the first time the premier league, the passion of the nation, is going to the wire with the two most famous clubs in the country, Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak chasing the Golden Fleece in a neck to neck affair. With only three more games to end the season, only two points separate Hearts and Asante Kotoko from the top of the table. The amazing thing is the sudden turn around of fortunes in the second round of the proceedings when the first round pointed to a straight forward win for Accra Hearts of Oak. more »

Hearts Sure To Repeat Dose

June 14th, 2009
Supporters of Accra Hearts of Oak strongly believe that the month of June is their lucky moment and despite the current highly improved form of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, they are poised to beat the proverbial Porcupine Warriors at the Ohene Djan Stadium in the crucial league match on Sunday. more »

Kotoko Coach Throws In The Towel?

May 10th, 2009
The teeming supporters of Kumai Asante Kotoko who thought their young braggart coach Opeele Aboagye could revive the sagging spirits of the club with some impressive victories must revise their notes.He seems to have given up. He says “the problems facing the club are such that not even a world class coach like Guus Hiddink of Chelsea will achieve anything in Kotoko”. more »