Football-loving fans at Tumu in the Sissala East District capital of in the Upper West Region, who have heard a lot about Kumasi Asante Kotoko over the years but have not watched the team play physically in their lifetime, will have a feel of the great club when they play Tumu-based Real 24 Hours FC at the Tumu Park tomorrow in an MTN FA Cup round of 32 fixture.

Aside their off-the-field troubles regarding the ‘stepping aside’ of Coach David Duncan, Kotoko’s clash with the Tumu side has been charactersied by a heated debate over the venue, compelling the FA Cup Committee (FACC) and the Club Licencing Board (CLB) to pass a quick judgment for Kotoko to honour the match tomorrow as scheduled. 

Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi, has confirmed that plans are far advanced to get Spanish La Liga duo, Thomas Teye Partey and Inaki Williams, to play for the Black Stars.

The young players have been in blistering in form at their respective clubs this season and have gone unnoticed as the FA has instituted plans to get the duo to play for Ghana.

Sekondi Hasaacas on Thursday beat visiting Medeama Sporting Club 2-0 in their seventh week outstanding Premier League match at the Sekondi Stadium in Essipon.

When the rubber hits the road, they put on a show, not only for themselves, but importantly for Mother Ghana.

A Former Ghanaian international, Awudu Issaka, has slammed the management of Kumasi Asante Kotoko for what he described as an unjustifiable treatment being meted out to Coach David Duncan.

Issaka, who was influential in Ghana’s gold-winning feat at the 1995 FIFA Under-17 World Cup, said asking a coach to step aside in this current era was unprofessional and, therefore, charged the management of the Porcupine Warriors to reconsider that decision.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko stirred yet another controversy this week after coming out to vehemently protest against a decision by the FA Cup Committee (FACC) to have their MTN FA Cup round of 32 match played in Tumu as originally balloted.  

As we have observed, the latest call by the Kotoko management followed hard on the heels of a similar decision by the club asking Coach David Duncan to step aside for a while due to the club’s spate of poor results in the ongoing Premier League.

Just like the Duncan saga, Kotoko’s request for a change of venue for their match against Tumu-based Division Two side Real 24 Hours FC stirred a heated debate in the media, resulting in divided opinion on the matter.

The ongoing National Ping-pong League enters the second week tomorrow at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium with defending champions, Immigration Service, expected to maintain their winning ways. 

They chase a second win against Tesano Spinners in a game that will not be easy for either side.

Takoradi Polytechnic on Tuesday recorded a stunning 59-57 win over highly rated Group B opponents, Marshalls University College, in the opening game of the Rexona Universities, Polytechnics and College (UPAC) Basketball Championship at the Accra Polytechnic basketball court.

The Takoradi Polytechnic basketball team led in all the first three quarters of the game (14-12, 25-24 and 42-36) but suffered a fright in the closing stages as Marshalls staged a late comeback.

Tumu will be the centre of attraction this weekend as Kumasi Asante Kotoko storm the Tumu Park in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region to play Tumu Real 24 Hours FC in an MTN FA Cup duel tomorrow.

The national table tennis league spinned off last Saturday with some thrilling encounters which saw the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Immigration service, Prisons Service, Ghana Army and Police Service getting off to good starts in the men’s division.

Defending men’s champions, Immigration started on a good note as they beat Synergy Club 3-0 with GRA defeating Madina Club 3-0, while Fire Service defeated Tesano Spinners 3-2.

A Tema-based Division Two side, True Demo Football, are poised to defeat Accra Youth at the Tema Stadium on Saturday

 True Demo showed a lot of promise during the round of 64 of the MTN FA Cup last month when they beat Unicorn FC of Takoradi by a lone goal at the Sekondi Stadium at Essipon.

The 2015/2016 National Women’s League was launched last Wednesday at the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Secretariat in Accra with the introduction of a new competition called the knock- out competition, which is intended to give more playing time to the players and clubs. 

Eight teams will begin their quest to be crowned the best tertiary institution basketball team in the country when the quarter-final stage of the Rexona Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges Basketball Championship tips-off today at the Accra Polytechnic basketball court.

The contest started last month with 28 tertiary institutions battling it out for a spot in the finals in the qualifiers held in seven zones across nine regions of the country.

The management of Accra Great Olympics will today introduce veteran striker, Godwin Attram, as the club’s new coach after the club refused to extend the contract of Yaw Acheampong.

At a ceremony on the premises of Metro TV at 10:00 a.m. the Wonder Club expressed the belief that a new path would be charted for the club.

The Asantehene and Life Patron of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has directed the club’s Board Chairman, Paul Adu-Gyamfi, to meet with embattled David Duncan to decide his fate, following the controversial decision by the club’s management to order the coach to step aside and hand over the technical affairs to his assistant, Michael Osei.