The poor officiating witnessed at AFCON 2013 finally came to a crescendo on Wednesday night when Tunisian RefereeSlim Jdidi officiated the all important semi-final clash between Burkina-Faso and Ghana. The game was filled with erroneous calls which was capped with a red card for talented winger Jonathan Pitroipa. The red card was totally undeserved since there was enough contact between the Ghanian centre back and Pitroipa that made him go down inside the penalty box.
Thankfully, Burkina-Faso emerged winners after penalty shootout that included a disastrous miss from centre back Vorsah. The condition in CAF rules for a red card to be overturned is that the officiating referee would have to publicly admit in his match report that he made a mistake before CAF call call upon its powers to over-ride the red card thus making the player available for the next game.
Jonathan Pitroipa's tears will be dried up now seeing as the shameful referee who is now suspended has admitted to making an erroneous call in that situation which makes it possible for Potroipa to be available for selection in the final.
Hopefully this will give the final game on Sunday a credible bearing that will lead to fantastic football for lovers of football not just in Africa but across the globe.
