The story goes like this -
The Togolese national football team arrives for the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.
Their bus gets shot up by brigands; three men are killed, nine injured.
The team goes back to Togo; the players ultimately decide that nothing *worse* could happen, why not play the tournament? The Togolese gov’t says, “No.”
The governing body of African Football decides the right response to the tragedy is to ban Togo from the next two Cup of Nations tournaments because of government involvement in football affairs.
One of the more bizarre decisions you’ll see.
But now the ban is overturned and we can all live happily again.
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Yay!!
“we can all live happily again.”
I assume this is modulo the mourning families, the Togolese fans who were looking forward to the the CAF cup …