African Cup of Nations

[chips]

Didn't Yaya retire from international football?

[Beefymcfc]

Didn't Yaya retire from international football?

No. He thought about it but then said 'Fuck you City, Country before Club'!

He didn't really, as you could guess he takes his national team seriously and it's something he is proud of doing. Winning a trophy for them is something he feels he must achieve, and rightly so.

[chips]

No. He thought about it but then said 'Fuck you City, Country before Club'!

He didn't really, as you could guess he takes his national team seriously and it's something he is proud of doing. Winning a trophy for them is something he feels he must achieve, and rightly so.

Fair enough. Why do we have to have all the non cunt players eh!

[lets all have a disco]

Maybe all this will change his mind.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -riot.html

[bluechester]

Maybe all this will change his mind.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -riot.html

that is some crazy shit

[Beefymcfc]

Does anybody confirm if the Ivory Coast were awarded the points, it just seems to say 'abandoned' on everything I've read?

[kinkylola]

ivory coast were 2-0 up at the time right? I think if the tie is only abandoned, that is a massive fuck you to ivory coast ... and a ridiculous precedent to set going forward.

[Dameerto]

Senegal will have to forfeit the tie, there's no other outcome.

[phips]

ivory coast were 2-0 up at the time right? I think if the tie is only abandoned, that is a massive fuck you to ivory coast ... and a ridiculous precedent to set going forward.

How is that a massive fuck you?..Am I missing something?
CDV were up 6-2 on aggregate...

[Slim]

ivory coast were 2-0 up at the time right? I think if the tie is only abandoned, that is a massive fuck you to ivory coast ... and a ridiculous precedent to set going forward.

How is that a massive fuck you?..Am I missing something?
CDV were up 6-2 on aggregate...

In terms of abandoned games, I believe it has to have passed the 60 or 75 minute mark(can't remember which) in order for the result to stand.

[kinkylola]

ivory coast were 2-0 up at the time right? I think if the tie is only abandoned, that is a massive fuck you to ivory coast ... and a ridiculous precedent to set going forward.

How is that a massive fuck you?..Am I missing something?
CDV were up 6-2 on aggregate...

You may be missing something, yes. Having the tie abandoned means they would have to play it again? I may be wrong on that ... but as Ivory coast had pretty much sealed the tie off being up 2-0, then yea, I'd say that's a fuck you to Ivory coast. (if i am correct about them having the replay if it's abandoned)

Obviously I am of the opinion that the 2-0 should stand and all that entails.

[Alex Sapphire]

couple of things:

Ivory Coast are through to the finals and Senegal are not:

Official CAF site

secondly: how the feck does Côte d'Ivoire become CDV ?

thirdly: it's a dangerous competition isn't it? I hope the worst is over

[Tokyo Blue]

secondly: how the feck does Côte d'Ivoire become CDV ?

:-)

[twosips]

secondly: how the feck does Côte d'Ivoire become CDV ?

Côte d'Ivoire

:)

(sorry, just wanted to be awkward)

edit - to be fair as well, the prevailing sounds when you say it out loud are the C, D and V...Dee Vore is how i pronounce it anyway.

[Tokyo Blue]

ivory coast were 2-0 up at the time right? I think if the tie is only abandoned, that is a massive fuck you to ivory coast ... and a ridiculous precedent to set going forward.

How is that a massive fuck you?..Am I missing something?
CDV were up 6-2 on aggregate...

In terms of abandoned games, I believe it has to have passed the 60 or 75 minute mark(can't remember which) in order for the result to stand.

70 minutes, I believe. Could be wrong though.

In a J-League game abandoned due to a waterlogged pitch after 82 minutes two years ago (?), they played the final eight minutes on a different day. Fans got in free. The score stayed the same. It was Kawasaki v Kashima, if memory serves. Findable on the net perhaps. But that's the J-League, which is in a little footballing universe of its own.

[Slim]

Could be that, I remember the commentators going on about it during the Burnley game a couple of seasons back when we were 3-0 up in 6 minutes or something. Pretty torrential downpour and the ball was getting caught in lakes by the fish spawning there.

[Dameerto]

Could be that, I remember the commentators going on about it during the Burnley game a couple of seasons back when we were 3-0 up in 6 minutes or something. Pretty torrential downpour and the ball was getting caught in lakes by the fish spawning there.

That sodding weather stopped us getting into double figures - we were all over them and threatening to run up a cricket score.

[phips]

secondly: how the feck does Côte d'Ivoire become CDV ?

because I'm an idiot.

fuck off

[Swales4ever]

secondly: how the feck does Côte d'Ivoire become CDV ?

because I'm an idiot.

fuck off

mmmhh... unnecessary roughness on the QB, to say it in Yankees' style.

[dazby]

Yes Mancio, the Yankees are such idiots that they would use a grid iron term for their baseball side.