Morocco have won the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations tonight.
What do you mean you didn’t realise it was being decided tonight ? Keep up for goodness sake. Calamity and Debacle are the words that spring to mind. And the good news is, that Senegal can and probably will appeal this appeal and may get the reversed result reversed.
And who wins the most out of all of this ? The bloody lawyers of course.
“Let’s kill all the lawyers”
Morocco declared the winners of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after the Confederation of African Football overturns the result of their final defeat by Senegal.
www.bbc.co.uk
This is a debacle, and it does reduce the African Cup to a laughing stock.
The Confederation is not fit for purpose it would seem.
Interesting that this story has not created a huge shockwave. Imagine the furore if UEFA declared the losers of the Champion's League Final and actually won the trophy.
In a much broader sense though (he types, heading off at a tangent) the Law and lawyers are increasingly being subverted to serve Political masters.
It's a gradual process, and not without push-back.
The Conservative-loaded Supreme Court in the USA declaring Trumps' tariffs illegal for example. He believed they would never oppose him.
But, by degrees, the Law is being pressured, eroded and side-lined to suit the agendas of Politicians, despite historical foundations of independence from such influence.
When Dictators rise, lawyers
are killed. Along with intellectuals and all other free-thinkers. Then their books are burned.
Any philosophy which regards legal processes as a hinderance to be overcome, should take a very long, hard look at itself.
Apologies for straying off-topic.
This is a sad day for the African Cup of Nations.
And for Africa too as a whole. A Continent that has to struggle so hard to gain any credibility at all in the eyes of the rest of the World.