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In a system where the officiating and VAR failed to provide a fair contest, the walk-off served as a manual override.
By stopping the game for 17 minutes, Senegal broke the momentum of bias.
It forced the world to look at the screen. It effectively iced the kicker.
Brahim Díaz’s subsequent missed Panenka is blamed on the delay, but a supporter would say the delay simply restored the natural pressure of the game that the referee’s bias had tried to remove.
Banning Senegal from the World Cup for this would be the ultimate gaslighting by FIFA.
Senegal was the team that had a goal wrongly disallowed. Senegal was the team that faced a dubious last-minute penalty.
To ban the winners of the tournament because they dared to protest a systemic breakdown is essentially FIFA saying: You must sit there and let us take the game from you, or we will destroy your future.
Critics call the walk-off shameful, but the team actually returned and won.
They didn't forfeit; they protested, regrouped under Sadio Mane's leadership, and proved they were the better team by winning in extra time.
A ban would punish a team for a 15-minute protest that they self-corrected, while the refereeing errors that caused the chaos would likely go unpunished.
If FIFA bans Senegal, they aren't protecting integrity; they’re protecting incompetence.
Senegal didn't walk off because they were losing—they walked off because the officiating was an insult to the sport.
They came back, they faced the penalty, and they won on the pitch.
Banning a team for refusing to be robbed is just FIFA admitting they care more about optics than fair play.
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