African Cup of Nations 2024

[Maggot]

Both todays semi finals are on terrestrial telly:

Nigeria v South Africa - BBC2 and iplayer at 5pm.

Ivory Coast v DR Congo - BBC3 and iplayer at 8pm.

 

[agricola]

That may be the best use of VAR that I think I have seen.

Nigeria thought they were two up, but it was disallowed in order to give SA a penalty. The call was entirely correct, too.

 

[Maggot]

Wow. Never seen that before!

 

[hash tag]

igeria v South Africa - BBC2 and iplayer at 5pm.

Not sure why but heard this was quite a contentious match, keep celebrations muted etc. I've been watching the last 15 to see a goal disallowed and a penalty scored at the ther end

 

[agricola]

That is a horrendous miss.

 

[two sheds]

South Africa getting tedious, I'm starting to want Nigeria to win.

 

[two sheds]

Looked offside before the penalty.

 

[agricola]

This should be a red, if he is onside.

 

[two sheds]

I also thought he got a touch of the ball first. Would have been unfortunate, comes on for a minute in first game of tournament, gives away a penalty, gets sent off.

 

[hash tag]

Just in pub for the pens

 

[The39thStep]

Who are the two commentators on bbc for this ?

 

[twistedAM]

Who are the two commentators on bbc for this ?

Efan Ekoku and ??

 

[agricola]

Nigeria through!

Great game.

 

[twistedAM]

Nice one Kelechi

 

[hash tag]

Such an important match decided by penalties missed

 

[twistedAM]

Such an important match decided by penalties missed

South Africa's quarter final was like that and the better team lost that one.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Nigerian keeper is some unit. Intimidating for pens.

 

[Maggot]

Did you see the DRC players during the National anthem? some kind of protest with their hands over their mouths.

 

[Petcha]

Can we discuss why all the managers in this tournament seem to be middle aged white blokes? Where are the black managers? I mean, it's bad enough in the premier league that we don't have any. But the african cup of nations?

edit: apols, just noticed the ivory coast boss is black

The protest during the anthem was because nobody gives a shit about the civil war raging in their country, according to the commentators. they wanted to use their platform.

What is the latest conflict in the DR Congo about?

The Norwegian Refugee Council has declared the situation in DR Congo to be the world’s most neglected refugee crisis.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[twistedAM]

Did you see the DRC players during the National anthem? some kind of protest with their hands over their mouths.

They're wearing black armbands too as there has been a lot of heavy fighting this past week in the east between the army and M23 militia (it's all about the vast mineral wealth).

 

[agricola]

That is a bad good goal

 

[littlebabyjesus]

After missing that header, he made no mistake this time.

 

[mx wcfc]

All teams do this.

There are FIVE minutes left. Why try to hold it in the corner? Get the ball into the box and see what happens.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Well played Cote d'Ivoire. Could, probably should, have had three or four.

 

[GarveyLives]

Can we discuss why all the managers in this tournament seem to be middle aged white blokes? Where are the black managers? I mean, it's bad enough in the premier league that we don't have any. But the african cup of nations?

edit: apols, just noticed the ivory coast boss is black

(Source: as stated in image)​

Black Stars Fan Who Assaulted Coach Chris Hughton was Never Arrested – New Report

Chris Hughton sacked as Black Stars after abysmal campaign in Ivory

 

[GarveyLives]

Can we discuss why all the managers in this tournament seem to be middle aged white blokes? Where are the black managers? I mean, it's bad enough in the premier league that we don't have any. But the african cup of nations?

edit: apols, just noticed the ivory coast boss is black

(Source: as stated in image)

Rigobert Song, Head Coach of Cameroon, Afcon 2023​

 

[GarveyLives]

Can we discuss why all the managers in this tournament seem to be middle aged white blokes? Where are the black managers? I mean, it's bad enough in the premier league that we don't have any. But the african cup of nations?

edit: apols, just noticed the ivory coast boss is black

(Source: as stated in image)

Aliou Cisse, Head Coach of Senegal, Afcon 2023​

 

[GarveyLives]

Can we discuss why all the managers in this tournament seem to be middle aged white blokes? Where are the black managers? I mean, it's bad enough in the premier league that we don't have any. But the african cup of nations?

edit: apols, just noticed the ivory coast boss is black

(Source: as stated in image)

Kaba Diawara, Head Coach of Guinea, Afcon 2023​

 

[two sheds]

Yeh, apart from them though ...

 

[GarveyLives]

Can we discuss why all the managers in this tournament seem to be middle aged white blokes? Where are the black managers? I mean, it's bad enough in the premier league that we don't have any. But the african cup of nations?

edit: apols, just noticed the ivory coast boss is black

Ousman Cho Drammeh, National Team Manager of Gambia (the Head Coach was european), Afcon 2023​