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CL Fox

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7 hours ago, OntarioFox said:

unserious continent

Meanwhile, man city haven't been charged, Chelsea get an incredibly lenient fine. And Fifa hand over the world Cup to the highest briber. Not sure it's just that continent. I think its the sport.

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Super_horns

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Presumably if another team walked off the pitch for 10 minutes in protest the hope will be that the officials apply the rules at the time to avoid this sort of situation.

 

Does sum up the standard of officiating on the night .

 

Could have been resolved there and then .

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Fear Of The Fox

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5 hours ago, CL Fox said:

Meanwhile, man city haven't been charged, Chelsea get an incredibly lenient fine. And Fifa hand over the world Cup to the highest briber. Not sure it's just that continent. I think its the sport.

Exactly. It's the sport. Probably some again will come telling me why I'm still watching it while I'm bashing it every day but I don't care. Imo anyone that pays his hard earned money to watch this farce of a sport is feeding the monster and also accepts and promotes corruption. 

bmt

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I didnt watch at the time. Can someone summarise if the actual decisions in the game (including the disallowed goal and the penalty) were actually correct or not?

 

I think its a difficult situation for a team if there is quite clearly an officiating bias which is making it borderline impossible to win. I remember playing in a youth rugby match where the referee coached the other team and was quite blatantly and without question cheating to the point it was absolutely impossible for us to win. We walked off then!

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3 minutes ago, bmt said:

I didnt watch at the time. Can someone summarise if the actual decisions in the game (including the disallowed goal and the penalty) were actually correct or not?

 

I think its a difficult situation for a team if there is quite clearly an officiating bias which is making it borderline impossible to win. I remember playing in a youth rugby match where the referee coached the other team and was quite blatantly and without question cheating to the point it was absolutely impossible for us to win. We walked off then!

Judge for yourself. I think Hakimi falls to ground a bit too easily and at the very least he's just as guilty of fouling the Mali player as the other way around. Weak call.

RobHawk

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1 hour ago, shen said:

Judge for yourself. I think Hakimi falls to ground a bit too easily and at the very least he's just as guilty of fouling the Mali player as the other way around. Weak call.

I personally agree with you

 

BUT I also think that's the state of the game today and would say whilst harsh it's still ambiguous enough that it's just a decision that's been made that I disagree with. I don't think there's anything more and certainly not worthy of leaving the field of play. 

 

This isn't Liverpool getting a penalty for the ball hitting Wes Morgan in the face or Erland Jonson throwing himself to the floor levels of wrong. And don't even get me started on Garry Parker getting sent off at atletico. 

shen

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17 minutes ago, RobHawk said:

I personally agree with you

 

BUT I also think that's the state of the game today and would say whilst harsh it's still ambiguous enough that it's just a decision that's been made that I disagree with. I don't think there's anything more and certainly not worthy of leaving the field of play. 

 

This isn't Liverpool getting a penalty for the ball hitting Wes Morgan in the face or Erland Jonson throwing himself to the floor levels of wrong. And don't even get me started on Garry Parker getting sent off at atletico. 

In the context of the match and the tournament as a whole (towel gate, hotels etc) then it's a very suspicious call. Three other Senegalese players are probably being fouled more than what the Senegalese player is adjudged to have fouled Hakimi. The ref blows the whistle before the goal is scored too, giving VAR no chance to review the goal either.

Couple that with Diaz' flop for their penalty, where the ref DOESN'T blow (thus giving VAR the chance to intervene) and the Moroccans hound the ref afterwards, you can understand the frustration and reaction of the Senegalese bench who must've have felt conspired against.

 

 

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RowlattsFox

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The disallowed goal was never a foul and was the major bad decision because I think the penalty for Morocco fell into the seen them give category. 

That said I don't think you can justify walking off the pitch because you didn't agree with a decision - sets a bad example.

 

 

Leicester_Loyal

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Was clearly rigged, look at the incidents with the goalkeeper and the ball boys, mental how nothing came of that.

 

I said at the time and still agree with Senegal walking off, it just highlighed the farcical decisions and blatant corruption IMO, which we're normally told 'just get on with it'. It's about time football had a wake up call like that.

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David Hankey

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44 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Was clearly rigged, look at the incidents with the goalkeeper and the ball boys, mental how nothing came of that.

 

I said at the time and still agree with Senegal walking off, it just highlighed the farcial decisions and blatant corruption IMO, which we're normally told 'just get on with it'. It's about time football had a wake up call like that.

"Corruption", in football, can't believe that.

bmt

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3 hours ago, shen said:

Judge for yourself. I think Hakimi falls to ground a bit too easily and at the very least he's just as guilty of fouling the Mali player as the other way around. Weak call.

Thanks. I agree, I think it's a bit of a joke call. I don't think that alone is worth walking off for (agree with the point on blowing the whistle before it falls on VAR though). The ball boy thing was so farcical I don't even know how to comment on it. 

 

I'm not sure what Senegal could have done; the fact the penalty was saved and they won makes them not playing look a bit stupid though. 

OntarioFox

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On 18/03/2026 at 06:06, CL Fox said:

Meanwhile, man city haven't been charged, Chelsea get an incredibly lenient fine. And Fifa hand over the world Cup to the highest briber. Not sure it's just that continent. I think its the sport.

Nah, Senegal have the trophy at a military base under the guard of the Army to prevent it being taken from them, and Guinea have dug up the result of the 1976 final in response, pointing out that Morocco staged a 15 minute walk off of their own during that game, their only AFCON win to date... they are now campaigning for that result to be overturned and the title for that year be given to them.

 

It's not even close. AFCON is on another level of insanity and meme-ness. lol

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oxford blue

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In relation to Senegal's appeal to CAS, I find this an interesting legal analysis

 

https://werksmans.com/moroccos-belated-afcon-triumph-a-legal-analysis-of-articles-82-83-and-84/#:~:text=“if%2C for any reason whatsoever,good from the current competition.v

The AFCON regulations appear to me to poorly written; the outcome is far from clear - although it is clear some lawyers will do very nicely arguing the merits of Articles 82-4

urban.spaceman

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17 hours ago, oxford blue said:

In relation to Senegal's appeal to CAS, I find this an interesting legal analysis

 

https://werksmans.com/moroccos-belated-afcon-triumph-a-legal-analysis-of-articles-82-83-and-84/#:~:text=“if%2C for any reason whatsoever,good from the current competition.v

The AFCON regulations appear to me to poorly written; the outcome is far from clear - although it is clear some lawyers will do very nicely arguing the merits of Articles 82-4

What is it about every single footballing authority having utterly nonsensical rules that they barely understand?

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