Gbolahan Olalere

OAP 📻 Broad📡cast Sp⚽rts Journalist📰🗞️ @freshfmibadan @blasturbanfm || Voice-over Artist🎙️|| Contents Creator✍️ || Influencer🧒 || Filmmaker🎬🎥 ||

[Football Gazette HQ @FootballGazett1]

Which of the European heavyweights do you think will not be making it to the next round⁉️🍿

#trending #FIFAWorldCup #footballgazette💜🦅🤍 #viral #europeanteams

[Football Gazette HQ @FootballGazett1]

Reaction: Mexico kick off the World Cup with a dramatic victory in a match that produced three red cards.🤯🇲🇽

What an opening night🔥🍿

#footballgazette #explore #fifaworldcup #mexico #southafrica #AdorniChorroYcagón #ladyboy #SomosMéxico #VivaMéxico

[Football Gazette HQ @FootballGazett1]

The FIFA World Cup is back again!🍿

Our Analyst's Verdict: Contenders, Pretenders and Dark Horses 🐎

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#FootballGazette #worldcup2026 #fifaworldcup #explorepageًًً #virałreels #trending

[CHINEDU @UncleChinedu]

An unbiased Arsenal fan?😮 he’s speaking facts

[Emmanuel Etim @Emiearth]

Based on performance alone, there's only one team that deserves to win tonight: PSG.

[Lewis Steele @LewisSteele_]

Luis Enrique. Won the Treble at Barca. Won the Treble at PSG. Won back to back Champions League. Made an egotistical, failing team kings of Europe twice. Lost his daughter and seems a genuine top, top man. Pep Guardiola is the GOAT but Enrique is up there with the very best. 🇪🇸

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

So close, Arsenal were so close, it’s so cruel, they’ve waited so long, this their 24th attempt to win the European Cup/Champions League, their 240th game in the competition, so many years of hurt going back to 71-72. So near and yet so far, so much heartache now, devastated players and supporters. Down and out for London against Paris.

Arsenal can take pride from Budapest if no trophy. They gave everything. They lived with PS-G, the European champions for two hours. They defended well, ran themselves into the ground in their 63rd game of the season. But that shootout. So cruel. Poor Eze, such an entertainer, so committed to the team and the club, one of the most likeable people in the game. Dragged his kick wide. Eze is a regular taker, took them for Palace and QPR.

Sapping conditions and extra time meant changes meant some of the first penalty picks, Havertz (22 out of 23 converted) Saka, Odegaard, were subbed off. And did David Raya commit early? Worked v Nuno Mendes tbf.

And particularly cruel that it should be poor Gabriel at the death, the sudden death, skying his pen. Gabriel’s been outstanding this season, taking responsibility when Arsenal needed him most in games, superb across two hours against PS-G. He took responsibility when his team needed him most in the shootout, stepping up for the fifth pen.

Pressure on, at the PS-G end, 4-3 down, he had to score but missed. Kudos to Marquinhos for consoling his compatriot. PS-G are great champions, back-to-back, a joy to watch but needing to battle here, in a scrappy final against Arsenal. They dominated possession and, just about, deserved the win. Never a penalty Mendes on Madueke. Vitinha immense. Again.

Those who mock Arsenal will say how fitting that Arsenal’s season decided by dead-balls. Arsenal will use this as further fuel for their fire. They will have to go again. Mikel Arteta’s side have built for this. Quarter-final in 24, semi-final in 25, final in 26. Go again for 27. Make Declan Rice captain, strengthen the squad, and go again. #AFC #PSGARS #UCLfinal

[Gbolahan Olalere @iamradiogee]

Football is a crazy game! Congratulations PSG 🏆 🏅

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

REVEALED!
Every Premier League VAR and refereeing error this season

🟥 Arsenal escaped 3 red cards and 3 penalties - actually received 0
✅ Gunners & Chelsea benefit from most ref mistakes
❌ Leeds the ONLY club not to gain from a referee or VAR error

👇
https://t.co/qMzDZgXi2H

[Manchester City @ManCity]

"What a time we have had together." 🩵

[Gbolahan Olalere @iamradiogee]

@DamilolaGabri10 @ogunmilorokenny Congratulations but I will reserve my comment 😂

[Gbolahan Olalere @iamradiogee]

What A Night! 💙

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

19/05/12 📆

A night forever etched in our history. ✨

[chelsea🏆 @CFC_1905_310]

🚨【必読】シャビアロンソのチェルシー就任の裏側、そして、アロンソとクラブの完全一致🗣️

『シャビアロンソは"マネージャー"』

チェルシーはシャビアロンソと4年間の契約に合意し、新監督として迎える。「監督(マネージャー)」であり、「ヘッドコーチ」ではない。関係者によると、チェルシーはアロンソの経験とサッカー界での実績を考慮し、彼に「監督(マネージャー)」という役割を与えるに値すると考えている。"マネージャー"という役割はクラブ運営により大きな権限を持つことを意味する。

『チェルシーの補強方針の調整について』

アロンソは現在の選手層を気に入っているが、プレミアリーグで実績のある選手を夏に獲得するためのプロセスにも協力する。BlueCoは若手中心の補強モデルを完全に放棄するわけではなく、経験豊富な選手を加えることで、アロンソ率いるチェルシーを次のレベルへ引き上げられると認識している。少なくとも3-4人の選手をターゲットにし、チェルシーとアロンソは能力・才能・人格がクラブの期待に合致する選手を求めている。

『チェルシーがシャビアロンソを新監督として選択した理由』

チェルシーはアロンソの戦術的知識とアイデアをピッチに落とし込む能力を認めつつ、フィールド外での貢献も強く求めていた。彼は非常に高い基準を持ち、それを更衣室に浸透させ、コミュニケーションと選手管理スキルが若い選手たちに大きな恩恵をもたらすとクラブは考えている。また、チェルシーはアロンソが、権威を強く求めている選手たちに「キャラクター・誠実さ・リーダーシップ・規律」をもたらすと期待している。更衣室の未熟さを示す選手(ロゼニアーをからかうなど)もいたが、夏にアロンソが到着すれば、そうした行動は許されない。彼は自然と尊敬を集める人物だ。

『アロンソとチェルシーの"決意"』

アロンソとチェルシーの取締役会は強い一致を見せ、初回の会話から「チェルシーがどこを改善すべきか、すでにどこが強いか」について明確に共有できました。ブルーズは来季プレミアリーグのトップ争いに返り咲き、主要タイトルも狙う決意だ。【@BobbyVincentFL】

[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

✍🏻 Ignore the nonsense at Real Madrid: Xabi Alonso has all the tools to be a managerial great… Chelsea have landed a diamond with a vision. This is what Stamford Bridge can expect

https://t.co/gs4LQceAX6

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

Evra is not normal 😂

[Emmanuel Etim @Emiearth]

Lost the League Cup final. Out of the FA Cup. They obviously CAN’T win the Champions League - and with Man City looking alive again…

It could be a brutal end to the season for Arsenal. Chai.

[Micky Jnr @MickyJnr__]

Nigeria’s Samson Adamu is set to be appointed as the new General Secretary of the Confederation of African Football. 🇳🇬

The CAF press conference is about to begin and he’s already seated at the top table alongside the CAF leadership.

A major moment incoming for African football… 👀

#AfricanFootball

[robertmarawa @robertmarawa]

🗣 🔴 LISTEN CAREFULLY!! 🔴 🗣

Clarity given TONIGHT ON #MSWOn947 by former @CAF_Online Disciplinary Committee chairman, a respected arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the current chairman of the PSL Disciplinary Committee: Raymond Hack.

[Obong Colin NOT Collins @ColinUdoh]

There are a number of points I would like to make on this CAF Appeals Committee ruling.

First, let’s clear the air on this Senegal leaving the pitch for 15 minutes argument. There is nothing in the CAF Afcon Regulations that specifically state how much time a team may be off the pitch for them to forfeit the game.
Second, there is nothing in the IFAB Laws of the Game addressing a team walking off and/abandoning a game.

With those pieces of housekeeping done, let’s look at the actual regulations. And I will focus on Art 82 as it is the main crux of the issue. Art 84 is simply the sanction for violation.

ARTICLE 82
If, for any reason whatsoever, a team withdraws from the competition or does not report for a match, or refuses to play or LEAVES THE GROUND before the regular end of the match without the authorisation of the referee, it shall be considered looser and shall be eliminated for good from the current competition. The same shall apply for the teams previously disqualified by decision of CAF.

There are two offenses here that Senegal MAY have committed. The first is “refusing to play” the second is “leaves the ground”

REFUSING TO PLAY
It could be argued by the language of the Regulation that that does not apply to Senegal because by starting and playing the game, they did not “refuse to play”.
Looking at the chronology of the wording, it starts with

- withdraws from the competition
- does not report for a match
- refuses to play
- leaves the ground

The progression is clear:
- not appearing for the competition
- appearing but not showing up to play
- showing up but refusing to play
- and then leaving after

If we go by the letter and progression there, then we can say that the only one that applies to Senegal is the last one.

If the language had been “refuses to continue play”, with the operative word there being “continue” that might present a stronger case.
But this might just be me splitting hairs.

Now to the “leaves the ground” part. There are 16 mentions of “field” or “field of play” in these AFCON Regulations in reference to the pitch. Here are two examples:

ART 16.20.2
The match is restarted with the same players on the FIELD and with the same substitutes available when the match was interrupted;

ART 42.3
A player expelled from the FIELD by the referee is automatically suspended for the following match in the framework of the same competition, without prejudice to other sanctions that might be imposed upon him subsequently.

Mentions of ground always refer to the venue, not the pitch. This distinction was clearly not accidental.

Senegal may have left the field, but they did not leave the ground. So if we follow that argument, then we can see that there would have been no reason for the game to be abandoned as Senegal did not leave the ground. Only the field.

Clear distinction

Finally, we go to the outcome of the game and the authority of the referee to determine the result

LAW 5
The decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play, including
whether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match, are final. The
decisions of the referee, and all other match officials, must always be respected.

“The referee may not change a restart decision on realising that it is incorrect or on the advice of another match official IF PLAY HAS RESTARTED or if play has restarted or the referee has signalled the end of the first or second half (including extra time) and left the field of play or abandoned the match.

Clearly, even if we agree that the referee made a mistake in not abandoning the game, the fact that they completed the second half, and played two additional periods of extra time before coming to a result, precludes anything else.

The referee restarted the game, it was played to a conclusion and there was a result.

Senegal won. Morocco lost.

C’est finis

QED

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

Although AFCON rules state walking off or refusing to play for a prolonged period is grounds for elimination, the decision to strip Senegal of the AFCON title two months after their trophy lift is a bad look for CAF.

It should be within the power of the officials in real time to disqualify a team, but it's a hollow victory for Morocco to appeal and win in this manner, weeks after the trophy lift.

Morocco accepted Senegal's return from their 10-minute walk off, gladly resumed play and took their penalty.

Missing it, losing the game, then appealing to gain the trophy doesn't sit right, even if by the letter of the law there are grounds to do so.