Nigeria protest refereeing decisions

Nigeria protest refereeing decisions in Africa Cup of Nations

Posted: 26 January 2013 Time: 05:17 pm

Nigeria have written to CAF to formally protest what officials consider to be unfair refereeing decisions.

The Super Eagles received multiple bookings and one red card in their opening game against Burkina Faso as they drew 1-1.

On Friday, they were again the victims of even more controversial refereeing, as Ogenyi Onazi was penalised with a penalty for what looked an innocuous coming together just outside the box.

On Saturday, the NFF fired of a testy letter to CAF complaining about the treatment of its team and requesting fairer treatment.

Article by: Colin Udoh

Add New Comment

Comments Login Form

Forgotten your password?

Your comments on this story...

CJB Ramses III
posted: 05:33 pm
This is pathetic from the Nigerians.... there are equally a number if decisions that weren't suspiciously their way too...

Failing to score goals cannot be attributed to the referee... and by the way all goals scored against Nigeria are valid...
alhajibolaji554
posted: 05:38 pm
^ Now you will say that Nigerians are big mouthed.
Nic J
posted: 05:52 pm
Nigerians are an idiotic nation this is now obvious. what on earth do they want(expect) CAF to do. they over rate their average players and when they fail to deliver, they blame anythng and anyone but themselves, truth is refs are human too and that makes them error prone. the only way to win is to score more goals than your opposition if you fail to do that you do not deserve to win period. now stop this stupidity and score more goals than your next opposition. Loud mouthed CRY BABIES.
alhajibolaji554
posted: 06:08 pm
Typical SA, if you don't like Nigeria or its people, then leave us alone.
pitshiza
posted: 06:11 pm
Hahahahahahaha ei Nigerians know how to make 1 laugh.......krkrkrkrkrkrkrkkrrkrkkrrk........why don't u score goals en win matches? Stop complaining, gone r those dayz where your physical appearance won you matches, now its in d mind........
Philosopher`
posted: 06:47 pm
i dont blame the south Africans for their idiotic and myobic words, after all, we all knw you work hand in hand with issah hayatu (bribing to to host the tourney etc)
Salazani
posted: 06:56 pm
All the complaining, but no one seems to have seen that Obi fouled Lungu to disposses him of the ball that resulted in the so much talked about goal
oga
posted: 07:02 pm
I know they are reading us here, we must continue to press the NFF to do the right thing always. After this AFCON I expect them to start a campaign to oust that rot called Hayatou from Cameroon.
oga
posted: 07:13 pm
All the slaves from south africa that have chosen to come here to exercise their apartheid mentality, I have one word for you, we run the show, the show don't run us. These lost race keep hyping on goals as if their useless bufunny bufunny know how to make goal talk more of scoring. That fly by night sisi game with Angola has suddenly made your hallucinating team the favourite to win the AFCON trophy eh? I don't blame any of you it is the crumbled wall that invited the goat to climb it. Please my Naija people, no one should respond to these sons of rapists from south africa, that duty is mine and mine alone. I can take on the whole lot of these HIV infected layabouts.
Commander Of The Ship Cpt. Black Beard
posted: 07:23 pm
Yeah right Oga like your corrupt, un-democratic, islam vs christian bickering, armpit smelling people of naija. Screw the whole lot of you cause we don't populate your country it is your miserable people that infest our country and leave our streets smelling vile, so don't come here with your foot-foot nonsense cause Kick-off is not a naija publication. Betch a$$. BB4Afcon
Commander Of The Ship Cpt. Black Beard
posted: 07:28 pm
Yes that wasn't supposed to be a penalty but in the future if Nigerians want to win they must score more goals and stop whining about the referee cause they also got a penalty which they failed to convert. BB4Afcon
Milutin Sredojević (HLABARINTO)
posted: 08:09 pm
Dear Nigerians, even in RSA our clubs are suffering from the same unfair treatment that you are complaining about because of the certain power hungry chairman of a certain team, they signed a 5 year deal with Golden Arrows to give away their games to them.
pitshiza
posted: 08:11 pm
I can't wait to c Naija bow out d group stage hahahhaahhahahh.................................to much yara yara ..........less ching ching
9ja Guy
posted: 08:47 pm
SA what is your problem with us naija, why all this hate? what happen to us can still happen again maybe it will be your turn to face this corrupt Caf. Instead of you guys to help us to see how we can make the beautiful game to be fair for all,but you have decided to crucify us. No problem South African continue to hate . today is our tomorrow will be yours.
oga
posted: 09:04 pm
Commander of the Ship, that's is exactly my point, we're not afraid to tell the world that we have moslems, Christians and non-believers in our nation, the unique thing is we come around to resolve our differences always without outside interference. We're not a utopian nation like yours, we eat our food, wear our dansiki, dance our dance, formulate our own school curricular and live our own lives. We don't dream to be oyibo. Just wait we shall soon be coming to resolve crisis in your utopian south africa as we have done in Kenya, Zimbabwe and the horn of Africa. My boy you're still a babe strapped to the apron string of your mother you don't how far the road of life is.
candyman
posted: 09:14 pm
@naija guy pls dude hate is a strong word....after all this is abt the game of football dont get so emotional...we are no friends of hayatou coz he voted for egypt to host the world cup and he did the same thing to us as he did to u (charging the national brodcaster 4 times what he chrge other coutries for bafana games wth his or his son's company SPORT 5....)but bru if u being honest wt yourself u will c that naija is not doing enough to win matches
shantylino
posted: 09:23 pm
here in sa we used to dubious refereeng.theres a team dat claim to b da biggest of them all simply bcoz 99'9percent of da trophys won,were thru mach fixing.as we speak da team manager of dat team is under investigation .ask any soccer lover in sa to find out wich team is dat.seems lyk da supet eagles r victims of corrupt referees.hayatou can run,bt canot hide.truth b told;caf is rotten to da core!
shantylino
posted: 09:23 pm
here in sa we used to dubious refereeng.theres a team dat claim to b da biggest of them all simply bcoz 99'9percent of da trophys won,were thru mach fixing.as we speak da team manager of dat team is under investigation .ask any soccer lover in sa to find out wich team is dat.seems lyk da supet eagles r victims of corrupt referees.hayatou can run,bt canot hide.truth b told;caf is rotten to da core!
fradok
posted: 09:24 pm
He who 419's will be 419'd.
JT-RiseKhosiRise
posted: 09:25 pm
Oga I think you can learn a lot fro 9ja guy, its seems ur soul is truble and u have choosen a wrong platform to exercise your voice as this rubbish that you are writting here its show a lack of education as well as lack of respect from your up bringing. Martin Luther once said "We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools" so please dont prove this statement right and start changing your mentality....
Terms of use:

The comments posted do not reflect the views of KickOff.com. Users are reminded that no misuse of this comment facility will be tolerated. Any abusive, racist or inflammatory comments will be deleted and the user banned.

Please report abusive posts to editor@kickoff.com. Logged in users can select "report" next to the offending comment.

S.A's leading price comparison site