ART Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 News is filtering thru about the match Ghana 3 versus Guinea Equatorial 0 being brought to a halt as Guinea supporters rampage the stands attacking the Ghana supporters. Helicopter gunships are circling above as thousands invade the pitch in scenes of complete chaos. Such scenes recall past riots and even war between upset countrymen of aggrieved football supporters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 Welcome to Africa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ART Posted 5 February, 2015 Author Share Posted 5 February, 2015 (edited) A better account of what's happening http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2941782/Violence-halts-African-Nations-Cup-semi-final.html http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2015/feb/05/ghana-v-equatorial-guinea-africa-cup-of-nations-semi-final-live Edited 5 February, 2015 by ART Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 Kind of makes a mockery of the way fans in this country are treated as criminals really doesn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellone Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 News is filtering thru about the match Ghana 3 versus Guinea Equatorial 0 being brought to a halt as Guinea supporters rampage the stands attacking the Ghana supporters. Helicopter gunships are circling above as thousands invade the pitch in scenes of complete chaos. Such scenes recall past riots and even war between upset countrymen of aggrieved football supporters. Slightly dramatized Art! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellone Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 More like Danni tries to fight team mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 There tends to be a riot at most AFCONs. African football is riddled with corruption and poor organisation. I remember about 10 years ago Tunisia (the host nation) were given a goal when their player was about 6 yards offside and the team of the opposing bench ran on the pitch and surrounded the referee. On another topic, anyone see Asamoah Gyan nearly get castrated by the Guinea goalkeeper the other day? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kXlnUYfKSs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarniaSaint Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 FIFA are to blame...........remember these "nations" are what keeps Blatter at the trough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 There tends to be a riot at most AFCONs. African football is riddled with corruption and poor organisation. I remember about 10 years ago Tunisia (the host nation) were given a goal when their player was about 6 yards offside and the team of the opposing bench ran on the pitch and surrounded the referee. On another topic, anyone see Asamoah Gyan nearly get castrated by the Guinea goalkeeper the other day? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kXlnUYfKSs Blimey, I bet that smarted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 FIFA are to blame...........remember these "nations" are what keeps Blatter at the trough That's a bit harsh. Take for example, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Algeria and they are pretty good and not micky mouse as you suggest (unless I have that wrong). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 5 February, 2015 Share Posted 5 February, 2015 Kind of makes a mockery of the way fans in this country are treated as criminals really doesn't it. Are we? I've never been lead away from St Mary's in the back of a Police car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarniaSaint Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 That's a bit harsh. Take for example, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Algeria and they are pretty good and not micky mouse as you suggest (unless I have that wrong). I don't think that's harsh..........his power base these mickey mouse nations .......agree that some are legit soccer nations but the majority are not!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 OK, and not being obtuse, which of the ACN15 do you consider tin pot. We have the following countries involved in the finals.... Group A Congo Equ. Guinea Gabon Burkina Faso Group B Tunisia DR Congo Cape Verde Zambia Group C Ghana Algeria Senegal South Africa Group D Ivory Coast Guinea Mali Cameroon Looking at that lot, I might put (being lenient) 6 of the 16 as tin pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st alex Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 OK, and not being obtuse, which of the ACN15 do you consider tin pot. We have the following countries involved in the finals.... Group A Congo Equ. Guinea Gabon Burkina Faso Group B Tunisia DR Congo Cape Verde Zambia Group C Ghana Algeria Senegal South Africa Group D Ivory Coast Guinea Mali Cameroon Looking at that lot, I might put (being lenient) 6 of the 16 as tin pot. I'm not sure how relevant that is? It doesn't necessarily matter how good the individual nations are. I think (as understood it) the point was that the governing bodies of those nations, and the rest of the African nations have (allegedly) problems with corruption which works out well for Sepp Blatter, as he (it's assumed) benefits from bribery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 This can't be true. A bit of Aggro at the soccerball and they didn't say it resembled a scene from braveheart with a heavily pregnant woman and 90 year old man running for their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 Welcome to Africa I'm in Africa at the moment and I've not noticed any trouble at all ! TBF though, I'm sitting by the pool with a glass of fine, chilled Chardonnay in my hand and a couple of thousand miles from the stadium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 I'm in Africa at the moment and I've not noticed any trouble at all ! TBF though, I'm sitting by the pool with a glass of fine, chilled Chardonnay in my hand and a couple of thousand miles from the stadium What are you doing at my house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 I'm in Africa at the moment and I've not noticed any trouble at all ! TBF though, I'm sitting by the pool with a glass of fine, chilled Chardonnay in my hand and a couple of thousand miles from the stadium Personally I prefer the Sauvignon Blanc when I am there in the Summer. Glad you've not been afflicted by the football violence. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 (edited) News is filtering thru about the match Ghana 3 versus Guinea Equatorial 0 being brought to a halt as Guinea supporters rampage the stands attacking the Ghana supporters. Helicopter gunships are circling above as thousands invade the pitch in scenes of complete chaos. Such scenes recall past riots and even war between upset countrymen of aggrieved football supporters. Or, seeing as I watched it live on Eurosport and ITV4... Equatorial Guinea fans chucking stuff at Ghanaians (when 2-0 down at half time and then when they went 3-0 down), who evacuated the stand on 80 minutes to pitch up behind the adverts near one goal out of debris range, and half an hour of nothing much, with the sides about to restart when the police chopper arrived and swirled up a load of debris. No-one went on the pitch at any point apart from the playing squads and a few administrators. The problem was the peed-off E-Guineans lobbing stuff (mainly bottles, no-one has said if they were glass or plastic) at the away fans and away dugout. Not ideal by any means, but nothing close to a riot or war. I was vaguely amused as CAF insisting that Tunisia were to blame for the problems in the last Eq. Guinea match and threatening to ban Tunisia for not apologising for slating the ref after an appalling 90th minute penalty decision (and pretty soft winning free kick award in extra time) now looks like an incredibly bad choice of ally in backing the Equi-Guineans. Though they also banned the ref for 6 months. The fudge on the subsequent punishment is incredible - suspended ground closure for Eq. Guinea as long as they behave themselves in the remaining 3rd/4th place match on Saturday - which allows CAF to hold the match, not punish the hosts and worsen the situation, and try and control the fans with the threat of punishment later, without the problem of playing a high profile match which is already probably a sell out behind closed doors. So basically, CAF saying "thanks for hosting at short notice, you've got us over a barrel, let's just get out of here, don't do it again". Edited 6 February, 2015 by The9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 Is this where I mention "Saints-related"? Given that Mayuka got injured stretching for an easy tap in he failed to read properly, Mane's already back too and Saints don't have any players in the Ghana or Ivory Coast squads... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 (edited) the whole chabang was malconceived; Morocco ditched them and have been kicked out of this tournament,banned from the next two and fined 6 million £ or something. So they found another host, the footy was in the main garbage, most games were drawn and the host nation's neighbours made the quarters in a lottery.There has been a lot of absolutely diabolical reffing resulting in at least one long term ref ban. Now there have been riots because err the host nation were losing a game that they shouldn't even probably have been playing in. The Acon is just a waste of time for everyone who doesn't really follow African football and it should be recognised as such and made a 4 yearly event in the same way as all other continents. Edited 6 February, 2015 by Window Cleaner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picard Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 the whole chabang was malconceived; Morocco ditched them and have been kicked out of this tournament,banned from the next two and fined 6 million £ or something. So they found another host, the footy was in the main garbage, most games were drawn and the host nation's neighbours made the quarters in a lottery.There has been a lot of absolutely diabolical reffing resulting in at least one long term ref ban. Now there have been riots because err the host nation were losing a game that they shouldn't even probably have been playing in. The Acon is just a waste of time for everyone who doesn't really follow African football and it should be recognised as such and made a 4 yearly event in the same way as all other continents. Trouble is as others have said , the African countries support Blatter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 Trouble is as others have said , the African countries support Blatter. What's that got to do with anything? CAF is going to be running a competition every 2 years (actually more frequently than that as they switched the cycle to non-World Cup years by holding one in 2012 and 2013) whether Blatter runs FIFA or not. They don't hold it in the summer due to the temperature (might be a heads-up for the Qatar bid there... oh, bit late) and it's been full international status for long enough that teams know what they're getting when they sign an African player. I also don't recall such complaints against the Asia Cup which has far fewer sides with high FIFA rankings than the AfCON. How would you feel if a Ghanaian told you there shouldn't be a Euro 2016 because there weren't enough Ghanaians in it for them to find it interesting? Because that's basically your argument. The two year thing, you may have a point, but we'll be having the European Nations League starting soon which is actually UEFA moving to Africa's model not the other way around. I assume the two year thing is to encourage the development of the lesser nations from having more chance of qualification if they get organised - it's a more level playing field across the continent than Europe and the top sides often miss out altogether (eg Nigeria and Cameroon recently). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redslo Posted 6 February, 2015 Share Posted 6 February, 2015 the whole chabang was malconceived; Morocco ditched them and have been kicked out of this tournament,banned from the next two and fined 6 million £ or something. So they found another host, the footy was in the main garbage, most games were drawn and the host nation's neighbours made the quarters in a lottery.There has been a lot of absolutely diabolical reffing resulting in at least one long term ref ban. Now there have been riots because err the host nation were losing a game that they shouldn't even probably have been playing in. The Acon is just a waste of time for everyone who doesn't really follow African football and it should be recognised as such and made a 4 yearly event in the same way as all other continents. The CONCACAF Gold Cup is played every two years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarniaSaint Posted 7 February, 2015 Share Posted 7 February, 2015 What's that got to do with anything? CAF is going to be running a competition every 2 years (actually more frequently than that as they switched the cycle to non-World Cup years by holding one in 2012 and 2013) whether Blatter runs FIFA or not. They don't hold it in the summer due to the temperature (might be a heads-up for the Qatar bid there... oh, bit late) and it's been full international status for long enough that teams know what they're getting when they sign an African player. I also don't recall such complaints against the Asia Cup which has far fewer sides with high FIFA rankings than the AfCON. How would you feel if a Ghanaian told you there shouldn't be a Euro 2016 because there weren't enough Ghanaians in it for them to find it interesting? Because that's basically your argument. The two year thing, you may have a point, but we'll be having the European Nations League starting soon which is actually UEFA moving to Africa's model not the other way around. I assume the two year thing is to encourage the development of the lesser nations from having more chance of qualification if they get organised - it's a more level playing field across the continent than Europe and the top sides often miss out altogether (eg Nigeria and Cameroon recently). Oh Boyo you don't get bit do ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 9 February, 2015 Share Posted 9 February, 2015 What are you doing at my house? This is not something which can be discussed on an Internet forum and I assure you that I did not instigate the relationship ! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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