If Moroccans accept it, they will just tarnish their name more than it already is.

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Very unserious continent.

A final not decided on the pitch, very sad day for football.

12 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I mean isn’t it normal circumstances that if any team that leaves the pitch, forfeits?

Unless directed to do so by the ref. This will rumble on. An appeal to CAS.

Edited March 18Mar 18 by dermott

3 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Very unserious continent.

Unlike in Emglsnd where that takes 76 years to progress the City case and fines us less than a years salary for a top player for a host of dodgy deals.

Arguably at least Africa is taking action quickly and hitting where it hurts.

Just now, loz said:

Unlike in Emglsnd where that takes 76 years to progress the City case and fines us less than a years salary for a top player for a host of dodgy deals.

Arguably at least Africa is taking action quickly and hitting where it hurts.

All they had to do was say they'd abandoned the game on the day and give Morocco the trophy, or stick with Senegal as the winner. This debacle just makes even more of a laughing stock of what is one of the least professional sporting bodies.

Blame the ref in question.

Game should’ve been forfeited the moment they went to the lockeroom.

This might rumble on a while yet

BBC Sport

Afcon 2025: Senegal's title being handed to Morocco 'has...

Caf executive committee member Augustin Senghor says the decision to strip Senegal of the 2025 Afcon title is "unacceptable, abject and we have to denounce it".

26 minutes ago, strider6004 said:

This might rumble on a while yet

BBC Sport

Afcon 2025: Senegal's title being handed to Morocco 'has...

Caf executive committee member Augustin Senghor says the decision to strip Senegal of the 2025 Afcon title is "unacceptable, abject and we have to denounce it".

"When you see a committee taking such a decision in violation of our rules, in violation of the Fifa laws of the game, to take the trophy and give it to Morocco, I think it is something very abject." - Augustin Senghor, a Caf executive committee member and former head of the Senegalese Football Federation

You see this is where they lose me.

You can't claim this is a violation, or an injustice to the laws of the game, when Senegal literally walked off the pitch and abandoned the game for 20 minutes. Literally three laws were broken in the process, Articles 82 & 84 and IFAB Law 3. So to come out and say this is a violation of FIFA laws for being stripped of the trophy, is contradictory.

Was talking to a mate of mine and the argument Senegal has is that there is a law that states the ref has the authority to continue the match, but the issue is that Senegal have already broken 3 laws by abandoning the pitch. If there are laws that contradict one another, then the sensible solution is to rely on the hierarchy of which law weighs more than the other, and since its One law vs Three laws it's understandable why the trophy was stripped.

It's just a mess all around and puts an even worse reputation on AFCON and CAF.

19 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

You see this is where they lose me.

You can't claim this is a violation, or an injustice to the laws of the game, when Senegal literally walked off the pitch and abandoned the game for 20 minutes. Literally three laws were broken in the process, Articles 82 & 84 and IFAB Law 3. So to come out and say this is a violation of FIFA laws for being stripped of the trophy, is contradictory.

Was talking to a mate of mine and the argument Senegal has is that there is a law that states the ref has the authority to continue the match, but the issue is that Senegal have already broken 3 laws by abandoning the pitch. If there are laws that contradict one another, then the sensible solution is to rely on the hierarchy of which law weighs more than the other, and since its One law vs Three laws it's understandable why the trophy was stripped.

It's just a mess all around and puts an even worse reputation on AFCON and CAF.

CAF are famously incompetent. And arguably corrupt.

5 hours ago, dermott said:

CAF are famously incompetent. And arguably corrupt.

Isn't corruption a statutory obligation of international football associations?

4 hours ago, Valerie said:

Isn't corruption a statutory obligation of international football associations?

Have some of my chocolate-coated scorched almonds. Bound to cheer you up.