The decision on Tuesday, by the appeals committee of the Confederation of African Football (Caf), to strip Senegal of the 2025 Afcon title and hand it to Morocco, leaves me gobsmacked, as it did a former member of the appeals committee. “As a person who was on the appeals board for six years I know it does not have the power to change the on-field decision of a referee. I cannot understand how they came to this disgraceful decision,” he said. But once Ngambo took the decision to resume play the result could only be determined on the field of play and not in the court of football justice. How this matter ends will undoubtedly be a defining moment for the five-year presidency of Patrice Motsepe.

Source: The Guardian March 18, 2026 14:00 UTC