
May 9 Disaster: The day Ghana football died and never fully resurrected
A stadium packed, passions high- then a tragedy that haunts Ghana's football to this day. What really happened?
The Accra Sports Stadium disaster, a quarter-century ago, remains a scar on Ghanaian football- involving Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko. The wounds run deeper than a monument and broken promises- and the game has never been the same.








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