It turns out that Senegal will live to regret walking off the pitch in the final as they have been stripped of the title and it has been awarded to Morocco in a 3-0 forfeit win. Kind of feels like it's a bit pointless doing this now, the emotion on both sides will not feel raw like it would have done 2 months ago.

It’s ridiculous imo!

If you didn’t lift the trophy can you really consider yourself the winners?

I imagine Senegal will win their appeal but even if they don’t, no one will consider Morocco to be the champions. It’ll his be like Musk thinking people call it ‘X’ instead of Twitter.

I mean, that should have been the decision on the night not 2 months later AFCON doing its best to remain a joke competition.

On the plus side I'm actually travelling to Morocco tomorrow so maybe there'll be some belated partying going on!

I am trying to remember why they left the field in the first place. Oh yeah Senegal protested their disallowed goal and Morocco's subsequent awarded penalty later. That felt a bit like home-cooking in the referee department so I can understand why Senegal was so upset at the time. Emotions in the moment were running high. Imagine if it had been the other way around, the home crowd+team reactions would have been even worse.

Yeh it was never a penalty either and if it was it should have been two penalties!

Now this is bizarre!

Thinking about it now - isn't there a reasonable likelihood that it'll get overturned again? I don't think you're really able to overturn a referee's decision two months after the fact?

What would have happened if this had been done in a semi-final, would they force the final to be played again with the 'winning' team?