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AFCON 2025

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  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,700
    soapboxsam said:
    African football is so boring:
    I normally only watch it too help me sleep.
    I have only turned it on because of the incident as my son WhatsApp me.

    Af con by name...
    Watched the snooker instead but did switch over for a while when the dodgy penalty was given and then flicked between the 2 channels...great penalty.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 97,418
    Jeez... How can a game not get forfeited when a team walk off the pitch for 20mins? - What is the cut off? 
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,159
    edited January 19


    Senegal beat Morocco to win the Africa Cup of Nations for a second time - but only after the final was overshadowed when they temporarily refused to play after the hosts were awarded a controversial stoppage-time penalty with the match goalless.

  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,490
    Just watched the official highlights and there is no mention of any dodgy calls, the walk-off etc. Like it never happened. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 14,820
    Some of the videos posted by journalists there show that the match director did well to hide quite a lot of violence too, including riot police
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,159
    Rizzo said:
    Just watched the official highlights and there is no mention of any dodgy calls, the walk-off etc. Like it never happened. 

    Just like the Sheff highlights of Saturday's game, no red cards just the Charlton goal
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,899
    Surely FIFA need to do something here?


  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,490
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Surely FIFA need to do something here?


    Give them a Peace Prize?
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 15,019
    And they say the tournament isn't respected by the rest of the world!  I wonder why

    Absolute shambles of a final

    The walkoff
    the Panenka
    The ballboys trying to steal the goalie's towel.

    Just so shameful all round
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,159
    edited January 19
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Surely FIFA need to do something here?



    It's the African federation (not Fifa) in charge of Afcon. (like Uefa is in charge of the Euros)
    Sadly this sort of thing is sadly common place (in Afcon).

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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 22,092
    A bunch of corrupt nations getting together to play a corrupt game organised by a corrupt federation, that in itself is part of a bigger, even more corrupt organisation! 

    What could possibly go wrong?!
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 14,820
    The issue Fifa has is that Morocco are a co-host for the World Cup in 2030 and a lot of the organisation and behaviour from the Moroccon have FA has been shmabolic at best
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,899
    JustFloydRoad said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Surely FIFA need to do something here?



    It's the African federation (not Fifa) in charge of Afcon. (like Uefa is in charge of the Euros)
    Sadly this sort of thing is sadly common place (in Afcon).
    Surely FIFA is the parent organisation though?
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,159
    SuedeAdidas said:
    JustFloydRoad said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Surely FIFA need to do something here?



    It's the African federation (not Fifa) in charge of Afcon. (like Uefa is in charge of the Euros)
    Sadly this sort of thing is sadly common place (in Afcon).
    Surely FIFA is the parent organisation though?

    Brings me on the next article I am sharing:

    “The Royal Moroccan Football Federation announces that it will pursue legal action with the Confederation of African Football [Caf] and Fifa to rule on the walk-off of the Senegalese national team from the field during the final against the Moroccan national team, as well as on the events surrounding this decision, following the referee’s awarding of a penalty that was deemed correct by all experts,” a statement read. “This situation had a significant impact on the normal course of the match and on the players’ performance.”



  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,159
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Surely FIFA need to do something here?



    Confederation of African Football [Caf] have:




  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,459
    The towel stuff is incredible, an elite level player and CAPTAIN of the team Hakimi throwing Mendy's towel away and Moroccan ball boys literally wrestling a Senegal player to the ground. CAF should be heavily fining Morocco for that. 
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,827
    The towel story is definitely going to complicate any Moroccan attempts to complain about the outcome. It's clearly organised on their part, so it's clearly undeniable cheating.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cvgndz4pd2xo
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,899
    I’m not even that fussed about the outcome….but you can’t have teams unilaterally deciding to walk off if they don’t like a refereeing decision. 
    It would set a very awkward precedent. 

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