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Senegal’s 2025 Afcon title has been revoked and awarded to Morocco following a landmark ruling on Tuesday. The Senegalese Football Federation is set to challenge the move at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

CAF strips Senegal of 2025 Afcon title and Morocco declared official champions

Senegal’s 2025 Afcon title has been revoked and awarded to Morocco following a landmark ruling on Tuesday. The Senegalese Football Federation is set to challenge the move at the…

Senegal lift the 2025 Afcon trophy. (X)

Senegal survives chaos to claim African football glory

It was a night of grit and glory, a final that vanished from memory as it happened, only to be immortalised by the madness of its ending

Why Africa is standing still at the World Cup

With Mané and Salah absent, the semifinals seem as remote as ever, thanks to a glaring imbalance in development systems

Sadio Mane may be ruled out of the World Cup due to injury. (Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/Getty Images)

2022 Fifa World Cup: What’s the deal in group A?

Senegal and The Netherlands should go through but Qatar will not want to find themselves on the wrong side of history

South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe gave the green-light to the AfCon, originally due to be staged in 2019, after talks with Cameroon president Paul Biya.

Motsepe confirms Afcon is on despite ‘enormous challenge’ of Covid surge

The 2021 tournament dates have changed twice, first because of fears that torrential seasonal rains could affect the tight schedule, and then because of the pandemic.

How Klopp and Mourinho became victims of change

The tides of time are moving at such an exponential rate that they’ve swept up two of football’s maestros

Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Liverpool at Etihad Stadium on September 9, 2017 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Tom Flathers/Manchester City FC via Getty Images)

The Premier League returns: Strange times, stranger football

English football is set for (another) defiant return, bringing with it several bizarre subplots

Five talking points from the EPL’s return

The Premier League returned after three months. Here are the things we learnt over the weekend

Chelsea Manager Frank Lampard applauds the home fans after the Premier League match between Chelsea FC and Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge. (Visionhaus)

Three things we learned from the Premier League

Video Assistant Referee (VAR) was firmly back in the spotlight in the Premier League this weekend as Manchester United and Arsenal showed signs they are finding form as the race…

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp. (Alberto Lingria/Reuters)

Chaos theory: How Jürgen Klopp has harnessed the unpredictable

The Liverpool manager has his side playing unstoppable football but it’s the attention to detail off the field that has bred the success

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola at the end of the match. (Reuters/Carl Recine)

Three things we learned from Liverpool’s win over Man City

Fabinho’s searing strike and Mohamed Salah’s stooping header handed Liverpool a dream start inside 13 minutes

Samuel Eto’o won three Uefa Champions League titles in his time as a player, but never won the Ballon d’Or. (Malcolm Sekgothe/M&G)

African players ‘not respected’ in Ballon d’Or vote, says Eto’o

The Cameroonian insists that players from the continent are not recognised as much as players from western countries

The absurdity of Premier nitpicking

It’s ridiculous to think that the Reds’ 100% start has still not left them as favourites

Algeria’s win was emotional and significant. A year ago they were in a desperate situation that was highlighted by crashing out of the 2017 Afcon in the group stage. (Billal Bensalem/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Politics stole the show in 2019 Afcon

The expanded and new-look Africa Cup of Nations was supposed to be a celebration of football in the cradle of civilisation

Senegal coach Aliou Cissé drops to his knees at the end of the Afcon semifinal match against Tunisia. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

The haunted return of Aliou Cissé

The Senegal coach has come up short at crucial moments in his career. Tonight could be different

Sadio Mane (left) and Mohamed Salah shared the Premier League golden boot. (Getty Images)

African trio share Premier League Golden Boot

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane along with Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang all finished on 22 goals

Mohamed Salah celbrates his 22nd goal of the season. (Reuters)

Klopp lauds Salah as Liverpool down Chelsea and eye holy grail

The Egyptian forward’s stunning strike guided Liverpool past Chelsea and moved them a step closer to the Premier League title

Liverpool’s Sadio Mané in action with Southampton’s James Ward-Prowse. (Reuters/Andrew Couldridge)

Mané steps out from Salah’s shadow to lead Liverpool’s double charge

As Salah’s goals dried up in an eight-game drought prior to Friday’s 3-1 win at Southampton, Mane assumed the mantle as chief goal-getter

The 26-year-old is the fourth player to win the award twice consecutively, after Senegal’s El Hadji Diouf, Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o, and Ivory Coast’s Yaya Toure. (Reuters)

Mohamed Salah nets second African Footballer of the Year title

Egypt and Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah has picked up the Confederation of African Football’s top player award for a second successive year

Sadio Mane scored shortly after being denied by West Ham’s ultra-busy goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski (AFP)

African trio star as Liverpool make superb start

African goal poachers Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah tormented West Ham United as Liverpool went top of the English Premier League