AFCON Final
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If the walk off was bad. You couldn’t make this up!
The GK towel shenanigans are incredible, the referee obviously unaware of the unsporting behaviour or chose to ignore it.
He should have been aware as they did the same in the semi final.
Sub GK behind the goal, men in suits, fighting with ball boys.
The GK towel shenanigans are incredible, the referee obviously unaware of the unsporting behaviour or chose to ignore it.
He should have been aware as they did the same in the semi final.
Sub GK behind the goal, men in suits, fighting with ball boys.
santa sangria
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WTFIf the walk off was bad. You couldn’t make this up!
The GK towel shenanigans are incredible, the referee obviously unaware of the unsporting behaviour or chose to ignore it.
He should have been aware as they did the same in the semi final.
Sub GK behind the goal, men in suits, fighting with ball boys.
one
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Not very clear what is happening but whatever it is, it shouldn't be happening.If the walk off was bad. You couldn’t make this up!
The GK towel shenanigans are incredible, the referee obviously unaware of the unsporting behaviour or chose to ignore it.
He should have been aware as they did the same in the semi final.
Sub GK behind the goal, men in suits, fighting with ball boys.
The referee did have a tough job but if managing the event was one of the components of his assessment marks, he shouldn't have got much for it.
What happens on the field outside of the FOP is ultimately the referee's responsibility to manage. I've actually heard some referee instructions as "I dont want to know about it", which is kind of like putting your head in the sand. Not a good look for the game when watched by hundreds of millions of people.
Aye, the whole thing was good for football. Any publicity is good publicity when it comes to commercials
Game will be like WWF/WWE soon
Obvs the walk-off was triggered/exacerbated by VAR, but that was always in the roadmap with its potential to inflame opinion
I switched channel to watch 'Naked Attraction'. Tele of similar quality
Aye. I've never bothered to watch that AFCON rubbish either.
Second-rate football, second-rate officiating and just cringeworthy histrionics.
Even the competition name is ridiculous.
Was at an RA meet with Peter Bankes last night
He intimated (he did not explicitly say this, so no quote), had he been VAR, he'd have been looking for an assault to get involved with that PK award given the circumstances of the decision at the other end moments earlier, and given what was at stake
Personally, I'm not sure it was even a foul. Too hard to tell if the Madrid Big ******** was cheating.
Poor old ref was left in a laughable predicament. Completely abandoned by the game, no subsequent recourse for applying the LOTG, no control over events whatsoever, mutiny aboard his ship. If there'd have been a plank with shark infested waters just off Amity Island, he'd have been jumping in to meet Jaws. I was half expecting Mr McMahon to show up at one point, especially after the Panenka. It's Showbiz
He intimated (he did not explicitly say this, so no quote), had he been VAR, he'd have been looking for an assault to get involved with that PK award given the circumstances of the decision at the other end moments earlier, and given what was at stake
Personally, I'm not sure it was even a foul. Too hard to tell if the Madrid Big ******** was cheating.
Poor old ref was left in a laughable predicament. Completely abandoned by the game, no subsequent recourse for applying the LOTG, no control over events whatsoever, mutiny aboard his ship. If there'd have been a plank with shark infested waters just off Amity Island, he'd have been jumping in to meet Jaws. I was half expecting Mr McMahon to show up at one point, especially after the Panenka. It's Showbiz
bester
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Morocco crowned AFCON champions on appeal after Senegal walk-off controversy
CAF have announced that Morocco have been awarded the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title following a decision by the CAF Appeal Board.
www.tntsports.co.uk
TheCuriousOne
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But in IFAB 5.2 states "The decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play, including whether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match, are final."
What CAF has ruled usually is meant for cases when the players don't return to the pitch and continue the game. In this case Senegal returned, referee restarted and finished the game, and Morocco participated in it, which means that they didn't seek forfeiture at the time.
Has anyone here had something like this happen - a team leaves to protest a decision, but then returns afterwards, and the game goes on? If so, how did it end in that case?
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deusex
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I think by "at the time" he means "not 2 months later".
I've no doubt my county FA would take 9 months to complete on this case. A continental FA? Anything over 7 days is a joke.
tbh at the time meant on the day - they walk off you abandon the game there and then, if the game continues, the result has to stand.
i don't condone a team walking off at what they perceive to be poor refereeing decisions (no matter how just those perceptions were) and we don't want to encourage others to do it in similar circumstances - a large ban / fine would have been more appropriate
one
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Referees are also required to enforce the competition rules. If the completion rules say if a team leave the field its a forefiet, then once they leave, it should be the end of the game. It's pointless to 'ask' the team who left the field to come back, or to play the rest of the game if it is going to be a forfiet anyway.
The positive from this is, any team who wants to leave the field is going to think twice before they do. The negative, if they do leave, they won't come back on.
The positive from this is, any team who wants to leave the field is going to think twice before they do. The negative, if they do leave, they won't come back on.
Exactly. All any referee at that level is going to do is offer encouragement for them to come back and then report what happened. Abandoning the game without giving the chance to come back could be career suicide.