Senegal stripped of AFCON title
The fat lady has not yet sung for Afcon 2026 and so the opera continues. The latest twist in...
Category: Africa Cup of Nations
Senegal are champions of Africa
Sadio Mane led his team to a second AFCON title in a hugely controversial final -which included among other...
Mane has the last laugh (again)
Egypt’s Africa Cup of Nations campaign came to an end at the hands of Senegal. Sadio Mane’s goal in...
Gabon sack their national team
In news that made football fans blink twice and check if it was April 1st, Gabon’s national football team...
Salah at the AFCON
Is this going to be the time that Salah lifts the AFCON at last . There was heart break...
Meanwhile in Africa
The Africa Cup of Nations kicked off on the 21 December 2025 in Morocco, Where is Morocco ? The...
Nigerian Team lands in the wrong airport
The Nigerian team were to play an AFCON qualifier against Libya in Bengazi . Their plane however was diverted...
Ivory Coast win a thriller
Fireworks light up the night sky. Ivory Coast are Champions of Africa after a thrilling 2-1 win over Nigeria...
Ivory Coast reach finals of AFCON 2023
Its special when the host nation reaches the final.Its been a fairytale kind of run, It began with a...
Ivory Coast dumped Senegal out of AFCON 2023
Drogba,who had been looking very glum not so long ago is now quite happy, He was glum because at...
Afcon 2023 and Total Energies
Total Energies brilliant plan for Africa – which involves some doublespeak,some greenwashing and a whole lot of moolah.
Egypt are out of AFCON 2023
Salah will mourn the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that led to his hamstring injury which then led...
Drogba sees his beloved team getting hammered
Drogba gazes glumly from the stands at his country’s national team getting beaten 4-0 by lowly Equatorial Guinea. Ranked...
Egypt scrape through to the last 16
High drama in the Ivory Coast.Egypt only managed a 2-2 draw against Cape Verde but still ended up 2nd...
Salah less Liverpool still going strong
Mohamed Salah is going to return to Liverpool to undergo rehabilitation for a hamstring injury, but could fly back...
Egypt lose Salah to injury
Salah has exited with what looks like a hamstring injury, Egypt had to come back from being 1 goal...
Namibia pull off the mother of all upsets
A scoreline no one could have ever predicted.Tunisia ,currently ranked third of 54 African football nations and 87 places...
AFCON 23 : Defending champs Senegal start well
Egypt have their talisman in Salah and Senegal have theirs in Sadio Mane.Senegal,the defending champs,made a much better start...
Egypt make a nervy start at AFCON 23
The puzzle of why AFCON 2023 is being played in 2024 is solved. Ivory Coast requested the CAF for...
Counting down to AFCON 2023
AFCON 2023 kicks off in the Ivory Coast on January 13. Morocco are the favourites.
Salah says goodbye with a brace
Salah is leaving Liverpool.He will be heading off to the Ivory Coast to captain the Egyptian National Team in...
AFCON draw
Chelsea legends Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou and John Obi Mike met up together in Ivory Coast for the draw...
Meanwhile in distant Africa
In distant Africa the qualifications for Afcon 2023 have been going on for some time now.The 34th edition of...
Celebrations in Senegal
Senegal’s first ever long awaited AFCON victory send the country into paroxyms of joy.The country had a national holiday...
Senegal are Kings of Africa
Senegal finally got rid of the tag of “the best team to never win an AFCON title ” –...
High drama in AFCON 3rd place game
Burkina Faso went 3-0 up against Cameroon in the 3rd place playoff only to find that Cameroon,instead of going...
Its going to be an all Liverpool AFCON final after all
Salah and Sadio the most famous faces from the Egyptian and Senegalese teams will face off in the finals...
Salah might meet Mane in the finals
Team mates might find themselves facing each other in the AFCON final if things work out that way. Egypt...
Afcon update
Heavy weights Algeria and Ghana have got knocked out and minnow weights Gambia and Comoros have made it to...
Janny Sikazwe ends the same game twice
AFCON 2022 saw a really major blunder by referee Janny Sikazwe.No one is quite sure what the hell he...
Mane and Salah don’t have much to be cheerful about so far
Egypt and Senegal have kicked off Afcon 2022 with sub par performances.Egypt was supposed to beat Nigeria but the...
A riot of colours in Cameroon
Afcon 2022 kicked off in a riot of colours in Yaounde Cameroon. Theme song.. Nigeria,Guinea,Gabon and Morroco started off...
Cup of Nations kicks off in Cameroon
Fourteen teams have won the tournament since it was first played in 1957, half of those more than once....
South Africa dump Egypt out of the Cup of Nations
Heartbreak for Salah and Egypt. South Africa qualified for the last 16 as one of the four best third-placed...
Egypt kick off AFCON 2019 with win
Salah and Co started their AFCON 2019 campaign with a 1-0 win over Zimbabwe.There was plenty of controversy leading...
Lifetime Bans for Racist Fans
It’s simple. If you’re a bigot and you want to express your racist views, do it at home with...
Cameroon pull off dramatic late win to claim the African Cup
Cameroon defeated the overwhelming favorites Egypt to claim their fifth African Nation’s Cup. With the score tied at one...
Morroco knock defending champs out of AFCON
Defending champions and home of Didier Drogba Ivory Coast needed a win to go through but didn’t make it....
Video:Ivory Coast beat Ghana on penalties
Check here for an absolutely brilliant reaction from the Drogba household when they saw the winning penalty being scored....
Morocco disqualified..
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) disqualified the Moroccan football team from taking part in the 2015 Africa Cup...
Why Nigeria is a lot like Germany these days …
The German Team is a pale shadow of the team that won the World Cup. And like the Germans...
Ivory Coast upset by DR Congo
DR Congo denied a Drogba less Ivory Coast early qualification to the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations after a...
Ebola concerns could derail 2015 Africa Cup of Nations
Michael Essien, the former Chelsea midfielder was the subject of internet rumours of coming down with the Ebola virus...
Nigeria lose for the first time in 33 years
No such scenes of Jubilation now. This was last year – shortly after they won the African Nations Cup....
World Cup 2010: Rabah Saadane announces 25 man Algeria squad
Algeria’s coach Rabah Saadane announced his preliminary roster of 25 players for the World Cup. The USA is one...
What if the Cameroonian team had come under attack, Mr Hayatou?
One wonders if Issa Hayatou, the CAF president would have acted in the same arbitrary and high handed manner...
Issa Hayatou in the centre of Togo storm
Seen here chatting with buddy Blatter – no doubt taking tips from him on how to make moronic decisions.More...
Hiddink heads Nigeria wishlist
Shaibu Amodu will now coach Nigeria’s homegrown players Shaibu Amodu has been sacked as expected. The Super Eagles were...
Togo seeks redress against Angolan separatist movement
The Togo government has filed a complaint in a French court against the organizers of the Africa Cup of...
Mohamed Zidan shows a thoughtful side
It is gratifying to see Mohamed Zidan who I have always thought highly of as a player mature before...
Video: 2010 CAN: Egypt win their 7th title
Egypt beat Ghana, 1-0 as Mohamed Nagy Ismail Afash aka Gedo scored the winning goal to claim their 7th...
Togo team gets 6 year ban in bizzare ruling..
Togo have been banned from taking part in the next two African Cup of Nations tournaments in 2012 and...
Egypt go through to their third final..
……decimating Algeria 4 – 0 in the process.Algeria ended the game with 8 men,losing the plot completely and making...
Egypt steady on course to the Finals
The indomitable lions goalkeeper put up a less than indomitable and mostly unlionlike performance and let his team down...