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“We are back,” Ernest roared, as Ghana ended 15 years without a win against their great rivals with a 4-1 trouncing. “This is the night when Ghana becomes again the kings of west Africa. Now we will go forward, we will win the CAN in our own country and then let the world tremble before us.” The 2006 World Cup – Ghana’s first – was one thing, he said, but Angola and Togo had qualified for that; this was something more concrete. Since then, they have gone on to semi-final and final defeats at the last two Africa Cups of Nations, won the Under-20 World Cup and, if they beat Uruguay, will become the first African side to reach a World Cup semi-final.

I bumped into Ernest again this week at the Mogwase Stadium near Sun City. He was, as ever, wearing a bright T-shirt under a dark suit jacket – the cold, evidently, like everything else, folds before his articulacy – dispensing opinions on anything and everything. “What is happening here,” he said, “is what should have happened in the 50s and 60s when the Black Stars were truly great. But Fifa wouldn’t let us in.”

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