AFCON and Football in Africa

I nodded off watching that. Wow that was dire, except for the moment of quality from Ilehanacho.

The commentator said you don’t want 5-0 or 6-0 … no you don’t but a 2-1 would be a bit exciting.

There is a chasm between last nights 1-0 and that, why the Euros and Gold Cup were a decent tournament as it was teams going for it.

This was as bad as the Copa America was, unsurprisingly 2/3rds and 4/5ths qualified for the next round, teams don’t take risks as a draw is enough.

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A member of Nigeria coaching staff asking Mo for a selfie.

Can Mo come home now?

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Ola Aina looked mighty pacy

The national anthems sound like MIDI files playing

That’s a brilliant result. Now for the next opponent (whoever that is) to beat Egypt as well, and we’ll recover Mo in no time! :smiley:

You think :wink: 16 of the 24 teams progress to the next round :grin:

despair GIF

If you think PL refs are bad, watch Tunisia-Mali.

The guy whistles the end of the match at the 85th min… :rofl: He is told that it’s not yet 90. Proceeds with the match.

gives a soft red card to a player. VAR tells him to check the challenge is yellow at best. Red card stands…

Blows end of match 89th min… fk it why wait for 4th official and his added time?

Edit: game is resuming for the last minute + 2 minutes of added time. 4th official will ref. :joy: :joy: :joy:

Re edit: tunisia (the losing team) refused to play the last minutes

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While Chelsea are looking to sign a new RB because of 1 injury

He’s looking for a transfer to the Premier League, obviously…

He would make craig pawson look like pierluigi collina

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That won’t do much for the credibility of this tournament but it was the funniest thing I’ve seen on a football pitch in years.

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anyone have any good links for these games?

This ref was suspended in 2018 for bribery :laughing:

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Mauritania - gambia…

Wrong national anthem played :joy:

Would probably still be one of the better refs in P/L

https://youtu.be/EcIHGDhvEWc

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To be honest the only other time I saw it was when a team was 7-0 up and I think that was a friendly.