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tazmania

That penalty was corrupt as fuck, especially after disallowing a goal that was legit

Gurgen

Not that I care for Morocco, but if you leave the pitch, don't you forfeit the game? Seems weird that you can just walk off and then resume the game at your leisure.

HomeSteak

What was going on with the towel thing for Morocco ? A team full of weirdos, glad they lost.

JazzG

Should be some serious consequences for something like this happening.

Burnwinter

JazzG Farcical and dishonourable, not at all what sport's supposed to be: an alternative to combat, not a reason you need to kill each other.

Qwiss

Both sides should be punished by FIFA and AFCON. What an absolute disgrace to have a final like that.

Mirth

Qwiss credit to Mane. Kept his nerve, pushed his own team and went back out there knowing that the odds were not in their favour.

JazzG

Is there some beef between the countries or teams that I am unaware of? Twitter is throwing all sort of wild theories out which I’m entirely sure I believe!

Claudius

JazzG heheheh. CAF has some disorganisation historically, as do most of the national federations. It's important to have that context.
In this specific tournament, there has been a feeling by many nations that Morocco is being favoured. This includes their getting all the CAF awards recently and a sense that referees have favoured them, including during the Nigeria game. So it was boiling over coming into the game - making those two marginal decisions in injury time so controversial

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Football in Africa is the closest thing to war without actual bloodshed. And there is an element of racism as well when it comes to the Northern African nations.

Asterix

-- by "element" you mean "shit tonne" of course.

Gurgen

Saw some KKK style racism around this game. I just wonder if you call your opponents monkeys and then lose to them, what does that make you?

Meatwad

someone who can't best a monkey.

Burnwinter

Asterix Appreciate that you stuck to the metric system there

Meatwad

https://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/01/fbref-stathead-data-update/
At Sports Reference we have taken great pride in the role FBref has played over the last seven years as an expansive source for soccer fans all over the world. Unfortunately, last week the provider of our advanced soccer data sent us a letter terminating our access to their data feeds and requiring the deletion of their data from the site immediately. As a result, we have removed the provider's data from FBref and Stathead in compliance with their demand.

Qwiss

Meatwad this will just make the stats useless to us. Having stats framed whatever way someone else wants to frame an argument is no use. We need to have access to them all so we can contextualise them ourselves.

Burnwinter

Annoying. The monetisation of sports stats is boring for hobbyists or just when you feel like an exploring some question. Detest the way intellectual property and licence issues sometimes leap up to disrupt a thriving ecosystem.

Claudius

Burnwinter I was honestly surprised how much data they freely had. Very sad. Maybe Bezos can pay for us to have avcess

Mirth

Just retire already.

Big Willie Champ

Mirth Just retire already.

Fabrizio Manelo btw. Though shit is getting strained with him over there.

Burnwinter

Mirth The funny thing about Ronaldo is that it's his personality disorders that got him this far.

Coombs

Burnwinter to be fair, our strengths are often our downfall

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