AFCON 2024

[ruislip bee]

I’m watching Cameroon vs Guinea now with my wife, and we’re watching Angola vs Algeria at 8pm. Hope this helps ??

I didn't mean you I meant Smithy who said he was watching at work. I expect you are in some far away place in a tropical downpour under a corrugated iron shack watching on a black and white tele with David Bowie's let's dance on the juke box.

 

[Silly Hat]

I didn't mean you I meant Smithy who said he was watching at work. I expect you are in some far away place in a tropical downpour under a corrugated iron shack watching on a black and white tele with David Bowie's let's dance on the juke box.

Toto’s Africa or anything by Johnny Clegg, Salif Keita or Kanda Bongo Man, purleeze ?

 

[Silly Hat]

Bounedjah bang - Algeria 1-0 against the Palancas Negras with an incredible strike from the outside of his right foot ??

 

[filmyfan]

Mr Hat I think you are the only person interested in or watching this competition. Please let us know how the Bees players perform and keep an eye on Saman too.

I will be watching as it progresses - just not every game!

 

[Silly Hat]

Oyyyyyyiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Angola equalise against the Desert Foxes, 1-1.

Mabululu penalty ???

 

[Silly Hat]

Huge point for Angola against Algeria, the 2019 champions. That’s now six opening AFCON games that Angola haven't lost ? ??

 

[SmiffyBee]

Fair enough but shouldn't you have been working? Would you have watched at home in the evening with your wife?

1. Lunch break.

2. No.

 

[Silly Hat]

I know I’m barking into the void here ? but Burkina Faso get a 90+6 min penalty against Mauritania, and Bertrand Traore puts it away ?

 

[Les Beeavinu]

Sorry number 27, can you spell that again for me please?

 

[Silly Hat]

Sorry number 27, can you spell that again for me please?

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Yeah. So that’s that Fulham w*nker Aboubakar Kamara, who played for them between 2017 and 2021. He’s the one who took the ball off Mitrovic in the game against Huddersfield for a penalty - and missed ?

 

[wibs]

I’m watching Cameroon vs Guinea now with my wife, and we’re watching Angola vs Algeria at 8pm. Hope this helps ??

With the greatest of respect your wife must be either African, or inflatable

 

[Silly Hat]

Withe greatest of respect your wife must be either African, or inflatable

Neither - she likes football, likes Africa, hates sh*t tv so we never watch anything other than documentaries, decent films or sport, and has lived in Libya and Ghana with me. We’re currently watching Namibia vs Tunisia. Namibia are doing remarkably well so far. Hope this helps.

 

[wibs]

Neither - she likes football, likes Africa, hates sh*t tv so we never watch anything other than documentaries, decent films or sport, and has lived in Libya and Ghana with me. We’re currently watching Namibia vs Tunisia. Namibia are doing remarkably well so far. Hope this helps.

she's definitely a woman?

 

[Silly Hat]

MASSIVE!!!! Namibia score against Tunisia in the 88th minute ? ??

 

[Silly Hat]

Oyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Namibia win their first ever game at AFCON by beating Tunisia 1-0!!!! Tunisia won it in 2004, and have reached the quarterfinals in six of the last nine AFCON editions.

 

[Super_horns]

Oyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Namibia win their first ever game at AFCON by beating Tunisia 1-0!!!! Tunisia won it in 2004, and have reached the quarterfinals in six of the last nine AFCON editions.

Few surprises so far ?

 

[Silly Hat]

Few surprises so far ?

In a few words - crikey, yes! So far we’ve seen some quite astonishing results. Few would have foreseen:

- Chris Hughton’s Ghana losing to Cape Verde - you what?;
- Salah’s Egypt desperately drawing with Mozambique was crazy;
- Whilst the Super Eagles are poor, nobody would have thought Equatorial Guinea would have achieved a draw with them;
- Cameroon drawing with Guinea was a poor effort by the Indomitable Lions;
- Angola got a great point in their draw with Mahrez’s Algeria;
- And Namibia beating Tunisia last night…. OMG ?

All in all, it’s a great AFCON to date. Not sure if the results are showing a decline in quality in the usual big teams (though Nigeria remain woeful and have been that way for 18 months or so now) or previously ignored talent from the ‘minnows’ stepping up, but all in all I’m enjoying it greatly. And today we have Morocco vs Tanzania (‘Mon the Taifa Stars) at 1700 and then - the big one - DR Congo vs. Avram Grant’s Zambia. My money is on the Chipolopolo ??

Shame so few others are taking an interest in AFCON - but at least those who read my nonsense are getting to learn the nicknames for African National squads ? #PubQuizMaterial

 

[nick logan]

I enjoy the updates mate , have watched a bit so far

 

[Silly Hat]

Pleasant surprise: Steve Vickers is commentating for the Tanzania vs Morocco game. Used to listen to him on Star FM when I lived in Zimbabwe ??.

 

[badgerbee]

Wissa to start tonight?
DR Congo v Zambia at 20:00

 

[Silly Hat]

Wissa to start tonight?
DR Congo v Zambia at 20:00

I think he will start. But it’s going to be an unpredictable game.

Congo’s captain, Chancel Mbemba, is playing in his fifth AFCON. That’s Chancel Mbemba with the four different birth dates……

 

[Silly Hat]

Tanzania’s team is……..interesting. They’re fielding tonight players from Wealdstone, Aldershot and Boreham Wood (hello Cliff ?), and a player from Basford United from the seventh tier of English football (Northern Premier League). They’ve also got a player who plays in the sixth tier of Spanish football, and one from the Western Conference of Canadian football. Their goalkeeper plays in the Swedish fourth division. They’ve just put on as a sub a guy who doesn’t even play club football anywhere at present…..

 

[Silly Hat]

Damn. Morocco 1-0 up.

 

[jlove]

Chancel Mbemba with the four different birth dates……

Forever young...

 

[Silly Hat]

Fun fact: 18 members of Morocco’s 27-strong AFCON squad weren’t born in Morocco.

 

[Silly Hat]

Ten man Taifa Stars losing 0-3 to the Atlas Lions

Very ill disciplined and even amateur Tanzanian side unfortunately.

 

[Silly Hat]

Wissa starts. Kakuta looking sharp for Congo already.

 

[SmiffyBee]

Ten man Taifa Stars losing 0-3 to the Atlas Lions

Very ill disciplined and even amateur Tanzanian side unfortunately.

I once worked with a Tanzanian, who pronounced it Tan Zane e ear, as opposed to Tan Zan Ear.

Fun Fact.

 

[Silly Hat]

O M G - what a goal by the Chipolopolo!!!

 

[Silly Hat]

Wissa equalizes for the Leopards!!!!!!

Brentford scores at AFCON! Amazing!

 

[JANORAK]

O M G - what a goal by the Chipolopolo!!!

Half a dozen please, with hash browns and a fried egg…

 

[Silly Hat]

Wissa effort cleared off the line!

 

[maddogging]

Never seen Wissa track back so much !

 

[Silly Hat]

Never seen Wissa track back so much !

Only been doing it in the last 15 mins though!

 

[Silly Hat]

Steve - STOP confusing Kakuta for Wissa. I know they’re both bald black blokes but Kakuta weighs a stone more than Wissa and is a foot shorter! ?

 

[Silly Hat]

Fun fact - Wissa is the most valuable player on the pitch!

 

[Silly Hat]

Penalty to the Leopards!

Edit - overturned

 

[Silly Hat]

Wissa should have just blasted that in with his left foot rather than do the unselfish thing and pass it to a colleague who fell over! ?

 

[Silly Hat]

Wissa substituted in the 90 min. He had a good game. We should sign him IMHO.

 

[Untouchable]

Wissa substituted in the 90 min. He had a good game. We should sign him IMHO.

Agreed. Looks like the kind of forward who’ll terrify defences when he’s on fire.

 

[Silly Hat]

1-1 draw after Congo totally dominated the game.

 

[Banana]

Disaster in Abidjan - Black Stars lose 1-2 to Cape Verde ?

They lost to a movie?

 

[Silly Hat]

Former Middlesbrough and Birmingham City forward Emilio Nsue scores for Equatorial Guinea versus Guinea-Bissau, 1-0.

I think this AFCON, like the last edition, will be a good one for Equatorial Guinea. Their first game was a draw against Nigeria.

 

[Silly Hat]

Guinea-Bissau equalise with an EG own goal - but it looked offside to me tbh

 

[Silly Hat]

3-1 to Equatorial Guinea now, second goal the longest long ball ever. Bounces over the Bissau defence and then easily slotted in.

 

[Silly Hat]

Nsue gets his hatrick. Only the 18th hatrick in AFCON history, and EG’s first ever.

4-1 to EG! ??

 

[Silly Hat]

4-2 now

 

[Inappropriate Smilies Bee]

Frank the Tank’s Nigeria v Ivory Coast in a minute. Come on Nigeria ??. Doubt anyone on here is following this tournament but is this match on tv?

 

[Ioweddie]

Sky sports football Channel 403 now

 

[Inappropriate Smilies Bee]

Cheers. Bet most gpger’s are hoping Nigeria go as far as possible in the tournament… ?