Guest pogue mahone Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 highlights every night on bbc. in yesterdays opening game a heavily fancied tunisia side made hard work of beating a poor rwanda 2-1, add some eccentric referee decisions and the tournament is off in fine style. 3 games on offer tonight, bbc 2 at 11 o'clock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O_Faz Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 To be fair, and brutally frank, African football isn't upto much. Save the few teams which have made it at World cup level, this means very little outside Africa, and it isn't until the 1/4's that it will come together as a spectacle. That and the previous tournament was dire aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc seattle Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 I remember watching the compatition a few years ago both in 96 and 98 while living in Africa. Was great fun. Maybe the best finish to a game i ever saw. It was Burkina Faso and DR Congo in the third place game. BF was up 3-1 in injury time congo scored followed by BF scoring to make it 4-2 and Congo scored twice in last 30 seconds to tie (there were amazingly on 3 minutes of stoppage time with 4 goals scored) 4-4 then won on penalties 4-1 i think. Made it all the more entertaining that the game was in Burkina Faso and the home crowd was celebrating a third place finish. Classic game, wish i had the ending on tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WillsbridgeRed Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 I watched the Rwanda came, the tournemant looks like it could be worth watching. not the best football but some hard tackles flying in. I'm glad I made the effort to watch it because its got me hooked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pogue mahone Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 Save the few teams which have made it at World cup level, this means very little outside Africa, and it isn't until the 1/4's that it will come together as a spectacle. That and the previous tournament was dire aswell you could argue that the same is true of the european championships. oh, and division 2 football isn't up to much either, but that won't stop me from watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fct Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Spot on, Pogue Mahone. I'm afraid there's too much superior arrogance in British football which goes some way to explain our national team's failings; too much expectation on them to win because they are "England" and shoudl win by turning up. The rest of Europe caught up with us in 1953 but some people still think England are genuine world contenders. Ridiculous! They haven't got the know-how, attitude or class to win the world cup. Every time they come up against a truly class team in a competition they freeze. The African Cup of Nations is worth watching am I'm going to watch every match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pogue mahone Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 so mali have secured their place in the quarters. David Pleat is without his most effective player for at least another week. What a damned pity. Nigeria played alot better today and looked much more solid without being entirely convincing. South Africa lacked bite and penetration and on the odd occasions that Zuma got into decent positions, the midfield were to far away to help. The game was in the balance until after an hour when Kanu and the South African defender tussled for the ball in the SA box. The SA defender appeard to trip over his own feet and landed on the ball. Everyone assumed that the ref blew for a free kick to SA but instead gave Nigeria a penalty. The decision can only be described as harsh. Okocha scored to put Nigeria 2 up and within a couple of minutes the same ref refused to give SA a penalty when Okoronkwo volleyed Zuma into the air. After that Nigeria took off Kanu and scored two excellent goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoke_Gifford_Red Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 What did Congo do? I heard many people complain about the quality of their strikers. Good job they haven't heard about Lita or he would of been playing for them and not for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pogue mahone Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 well they might well have heard of him, the coach is mick wadsworth who was managing huddersfield last season. the main reason he is nowhere near their squad is that as well as lua lua they have strikers who play for monaco, lokeren and chievo. all well above the standard of an english second division bench warmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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