I am not a medical doctor and I don’t know if there is a condition known as national hypertension syndrome. If there isn’t, yours truly deserves the credit for being the first layman to diagnose this disorder. Its main manifestation is when the nation’s collective systolic pressure goes beyond the reading range. This is what happened in the last seven minutes of the Black Stars game against South Korea. It is one of those moments everyone will recall and narrate to their children and grandchildren for years to come. Everyone would have had their own way of coping with this extreme stress during which Ghana’s own orbital rotation came to a standstill. Watching the match at home, I must have gone into the kitchen twelve times, the bedroom fifteen times with a few bathroom breaks. Standing or sitting still was impossible. There is only one known cure for the aforementioned disease; it is the referee’s last whistle. In the end, the collective sigh of relief was probably heard in our ...