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 »

Accra Hearts of Oak’s Serbian coach Kosta Papic is unhappy that the national premier league is going to be suspended for one month; to enable the home- based Black Stars to participate in the novelty African Nations championships from Feb 22 – March 8. more »

The purists say politics and sports don’t mix, even though they are unable to explain why national anthems are played for both sporting success and for political heads of state. more »

When the history of the 50 year old national football league of Ghana is written,two names that would feature prominently would be the late John Ackah Blay Miezah of Sekondi Eleven Wise fame and Herbert Mensah formerly of Kumasi Asante Kotoko and currently chief executive of Obuasi Ashgold . These two gentlemen with their flamboyant style in football administration put a lot of life into the league and were always the toast of the media. more »

When an African- American football fanatic of mine visited Ghana in the early sixties, he was so fascinated with Agona Swedru All Blacks Football Club that he predicted that the team would in future be the greatest club in Ghana. He was so sentimental about the name All Blacks. I tried in vain to impress upon him that there were certain powerful clubs in the country with such a strong support base, that it would be almost unthinkable to surpass them. He stood his grounds and simply asked me to mark his prediction on the wall. more »