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Won the penalty for Mali’s goal, but also conceded the penalty for the late equaliser.

Its a very tricky call for CAF. Whatever they choose will be protested. For example, what about the player who was red carded?...

https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/59981733 The referee was apparently suffering from sunstroke / heat exhaustion, and was taken to hospital at the end of the game (which is why there was a new ref for the aborted restart). Tunisia are demanding the match be replayed

12 games in, and so far the opening match (Cameroon 2-1 Burkina Faso) is the ONLY match in which with more than ONE goal!

Indeed. Gave Tunisia a penalty, and gave Mali a dodgy red (even passing up the VAR-offered chance to withdraw it). Not biased. Just bizarrely crap.

Mali have all run off, so he can't be bullied into restarting again!

Chaos!

Followed by an unbelievably harsh straight red card.

There are 10 matches on the BBC.

40 seconds into game one. Great start. 1480209740634468358

Not at all. I started this AFTER seeing your post on the Bissouma thread, and it prompted me to get this set up.

Given the utterly mental state of African football (dodgy pitches, shocking refereeing, corruption and the imminent threat of civil war / terrorist attacks) I wouldn’t recommend that anyone get involved in betting on this, excepted minimal stakes for a bit of fun / interest. I’m on Yves...

This most excellent festival of football gets under way at 4pm this afternoon, with the hosts Cameroon v Burkina Faso. The visitors may be somewhat depleted after an independent (ie Cameroonian) testing facility decreed that nine BF covid tests are positive. In light of this decree from the...