Bafana Bafana ‘robbery’: Safa pray for precedent - Match replays are not unheard of in recent times and SA’s footballing authorities are hoping to benefit
South Africa’s footballing authorities are taking their battle off the field. Following Bafana Bafana’s controversial loss to Ghana on Sunday evening, the South African Football Association has announced its intention to file a complaint against the game’s match officials.
“The match officials have decided the game, which is not supposed to happen,” he told journalists on the Safa media channel. “We as an association have decided that we will be writing to both CAF [Confederation of African Football] and Fifa. First to investigate how the game was handled. And secondly to also challenge some of these decisions.
As it stands, 2002 represents the last World Cup South Africa has qualified for. The country had a guaranteed slot in 2010 by virtue of hosting the event. . “[The referee] took intentional decisions with the sole purpose of facilitating a minimum number of goals to make certain bets successful,” Fifa concluded. Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey was banned for life and the game was ordered to be replayed. Senegal won and ultimately qualified for the 2018 World Cup.
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