{"id":198295,"date":"2025-05-17T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fare-thee-well-the-bulldozer-of-ghana-football\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T12:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:32:44","slug":"ghana-fare-thee-well-the-bulldozer-of-ghana-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fare-thee-well-the-bulldozer-of-ghana-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Fare Thee Well &#8216;The Bulldozer&#8217; of Ghana Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">I would like to pay tribute to my good old friend ex-international football star, Wilberforce Kwadwo Mfum, who passed on last weekend. He was 88.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Before paying his well-deserved tribute, may I be permitted to divert a bit and express my disappointment in Sports Minister Kofi Adams for his remarks during the 24th anniversary of the historic Accra Stadium May 9, 2001 disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Most probably, in sync with the current national chorus fault finding, he questioned the credibility of the May 9 Foundation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505160597.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to pay tribute to my good old friend ex-international football star, Wilberforce Kwadwo Mfum, who passed on last weekend. He was 88. Before paying his well-deserved tribute, may I be permitted to divert a bit and express my disappointment in Sports Minister Kofi Adams for his remarks during the 24th anniversary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,51367,8421,3299,4508,4509,257,254,51366],"class_list":["post-198295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulldozer","tag-fare","tag-football","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thee"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}