Scandalous refereeing denies Algeria the African Cup of Nations' final

The Algerian national squad quit the African Cup of Nations competition in the semi-finals after a shameful refereeing fby the benin Kofi Kodjia and his outrageous bias towards the Egyptian side.

• The referee has unjustly and against all expectations offered an imaginary penalty to the Pharaohs, who couldn’t believe this God send gift, and dismissed the lion hearted defender Rafik Halliche.
•  Though reduced to 10, the Algerian players didn’t seem overwhelmed by the events and continued pressing their opponents and could have even levelled the score through Lahcen Yebda when he wonderfully booted a free kick diverted at the last moment by the Egyptian goalkeeper.
• At the moment where the Greens were battling to score, a rapid counterattack carried out by the Egyptian enabled them to secure a second goal through the striker Zidan synonymous of an unexpected qualification to the final.
• The “hero” of the day kofi Kodjia, who should have worn a red jersey instead of his black suit, has offered the victory to the Egyptians on a silver plate when he sent the left winger Nadir Belhadj out, leaving the Algeria squad with 09 players.
• The masquerade continued when “Super” referee Kodjia dismissed the Algerian goalkeeper Fouzi Chaouchi shrinking the number of the Algerian players to 08, as if he was apprehending a leap back from the Fennecs that would imperil the Egyptians’ qualification to the final.
• Now that Egypt is savoring a “large” 4-0 win over the Fennecs, they have to think twice before playing Ghana because M Khodjia will not take part to the match. Now that the whole world has witnessed such a masquerade what would be the reaction of the organizers?.
• For their parts the Fennecs of Algeria have to turn the page of this “Hitchcockean” scenario and start thinking about the marvellous adventure ahead, because the World Cup is tomorrow.
• As we are concerned; we say Thank you for being so great, thank you for spreading joy in the heart of millions all along this competition, all and all One , Two , Three Viva l’Algérie !!!