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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Senegal’s 2025 Afcon title has been revoked and awarded to Morocco following a landmark ruling on Tuesday.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 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
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
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
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
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…
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
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
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
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
The haunted return of Aliou Cissé
The Senegal coach has come up short at crucial moments in his career. Tonight could be different