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Donald Buzzworth
 
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Afcon 2022
Be interesting to see how our players go.
Sadio and Naby play Monday. Mo on Tuesday. Fixtures and other info is here.
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08-01-22, 11:04 PM
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What a quality tournament.
Apparently teams have to play even if they only have 11 players and no keepers. Or they forfeit 2-0.  What a farce.
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09-01-22, 08:14 AM
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09-01-22, 08:22 AM
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09-01-22, 09:40 AM
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Bit harsh.
Perhaps they should make it a 5 aside from here on in.
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09-01-22, 10:01 AM
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09-01-22, 10:38 AM
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09-01-22, 10:54 AM
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What they should've done is required teams to be there 10 days before the start of the tournament and for them to quarantine but that would've gone down rather badly with European clubs who would've lost their players before Xmas It's a completely inevitable shitfest |
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09-01-22, 11:20 AM
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Like you I'm not a fan of international football, it's nothing against ACN in particular but holding any international tournament when case numbers are as they are seems crazy.
We are seeing cases in the PL skyrocket at the moment, a load of PL games have been postponed, but there is the best part of 5 months to fit those postponed games in. We are seeing with the FA Cup where there is only 2-3 weeks between rounds that there is no space for rescheduling so the forfeit situation has arisen. In tournament football it is going to be worse, players who get it are likely to miss at least 2 maybe 3 matches. I'd be interested to know what the ans are for sides if there are out breaks in a squad at the ACN, it seems likely that as they are living in a hotel as well as at training together if someone gets it it will likely rip through the squad, isolating players for a week in a timely fashion will be difficult and getting Covid positive players training facilities to use in isolation so that they can play after isolating seems like it would be difficult. I suspect the reality is any side with more than a couple of cases will be going out of the tournament fairly quickly. The winner will likely be whichever of the better sides can avoid Covid best.
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09-01-22, 12:08 PM
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09-01-22, 02:55 PM
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09-01-22, 03:21 PM
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I was reading it as if they had more than 11 players available but refused to play they forfeit 2-0. I was wondering if there was some flexibility if they had fewer than 11 players? But that may have been my misreading.
Also I don't think a 2-0 forfeit is that much of a deterrent, if you won your first two games in the group stage, the circumstances might make it more convenient to take a 2-0 forfeit than risk playing 
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09-01-22, 08:40 PM
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I only clicked today that Matip is not in the Cameroon squad. Has he retired from international footy or does he just not get selected?
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09-01-22, 08:49 PM
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09-01-22, 09:27 PM
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Who was it who served a ban for refusing to play for their national side? They retired but their federation refused to accept it. I thought that was Matip
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09-01-22, 11:52 PM
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10-01-22, 05:23 PM
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Guinea playing Keita in goal
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10-01-22, 05:35 PM
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Maybe they know more than us.
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10-01-22, 05:35 PM
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10-01-22, 05:36 PM
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Donald Buzzworth
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Senegal beat Zimbabwe with Mane scoring a 97th minute pen.
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10-01-22, 05:38 PM
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Guinea 1 nil up on Malawi.
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11-01-22, 09:51 AM
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The best thing about Afcon is how shit the keepers are. I swear some of these sides just drag some bloke wearing trackies from the crowd.
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11-01-22, 11:46 AM
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Israel vs Nigeria today at 4pm. I think it is on the BBC www.
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11-01-22, 12:06 PM
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11-01-22, 12:12 PM
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Tried to watch it, it's absolutely awful & remembered why I stopped watching it years ago.
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11-01-22, 12:13 PM
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Lol, Egypt they're playing
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11-01-22, 12:18 PM
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"When a man insults my country I insult him, by taking his woman" Tony Yeboah "looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey
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11-01-22, 01:03 PM
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Fucking hell. My dementia is moving on at some pace.
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11-01-22, 05:42 PM
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Iheanacho putting Nigeria ahead against…Egypt?
The Israel game must have been cancelled.
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11-01-22, 05:52 PM
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 Is like watching League Of Ireland footy with better weather for the most part.
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11-01-22, 06:15 PM
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Egypt’s entire tactics seem to be based around ensuring the ball never gets near Mo Salah.
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11-01-22, 06:16 PM
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11-01-22, 06:26 PM
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Aren't we wanting Egypt out of this asap?
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11-01-22, 06:32 PM
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 ideally.Sudan and Guinea-Bissau to come. Egypt look absolutely woeful on this showing.
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11-01-22, 06:59 PM
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The constant din of a kids orchestra tuning up in the background was a chore. Still preferable to listening to Steve McManaman though.
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11-01-22, 07:26 PM
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Worse than the kids constantly screaming during the Japan/Korea World Cup?
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11-01-22, 07:34 PM
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Or the Vuvuzela at the SA World cup?
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11-01-22, 07:40 PM
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11-01-22, 07:55 PM
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11-01-22, 08:00 PM
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Egypt are a pub team. Poor Mo.
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