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Report has it that the head referee who officiated the AFCON 2019 qualifying match between Bafana Bafana and Nigeria on Saturday in South Africa - has apologised for the costly mistakes made by officials during the game.

The Gambian football referee identified as Bakary Papa Gassama apologised to the Nigerian team after wrongly denying them two goals due to wrong offside calls, according to a report by OwnGoalNigeria.

Ahmed Musa put through Kelechi Iheanacho who tapped home believing he has given Nigeria the lead but Musa who supplied the pass was judged by the assistant referee as been in an offside position, something which turned out to be wrong after video replays.

In the second half with less than five minutes to go, Musa was once again at the receiving end of another poor referee decision as he was once again flagged offside incorrectly after slotting home what could have given Nigeria all three points.

The game ended 1-1 with Nigeria sealing her passage to next year Africa Cup of Nations but officials of the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) still expressed their unhappiness to Gassama over the poor decision which cost Nigeria a win.

Gassama admitted the error and even went a step further by sending his apologies to Musa over the incident although he admitted that such errors are sometimes unavoidable particularly due to the non-availability of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) .

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/11/south-africa-v-nigeria-referee-gassama-admits-mistake-on-offside-calls-against-nigeria.html

This guy and Jubrin, I cannot see any difference.


Both of them are Nomads robbing Nigeria.

This guy and Jubrin, I cannot see any difference.


Aboki na Aboki.

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It's not enough to apologise, since it has been proven the goals were not offside, simply award Nigeria the goals and decare Nigeria the winner. Like we did to MKO recently.

The guy is lucky that we have qualified already, if not his license would have been revoked.
Gambari ref.

Oti yawerey

Mad referees everywhere

Thank ur god its not shaolin soccer

U would hv been in hospital by now

Call for a rematch ...


And award us five penalties

Thank God we have qualified already else...

Stupid ref, will that translate to their deserved 3 points? Had the super eagles not qualified, would your useless apology have qualified them for the AFCON tournament? Shove your apologies where the sun don't shine, it's of no use

he's lucky we have qualified already if not

medicine after death

naijjaman:


Useless Man. Take that apology and hang it on your neck.

oga wetin happen, ur ticket cut?!

you must be very useless after u don cut my 56k ticket

Useless Man. Take that apology and hang it on your neck.

No need for an apology since we have qualified

if l catch jibrin ehh?

TarOrfeek:
This guy are Jubrin, I cannot see any difference.


Both of them are Nomads robbing Nigeria.

Lame though

He should be sanctioned by CAF. 2-match ban!

As far as I'm concerned, we won that match. 1-3 it was.

may be it was a fixed match sef

So if to say we need to win before we can qualify, na this rubbish go dey talk? i swear, thunder for don fire you since, just go tank ur papa say we don qualify already.

Who apology epp?

Can anything good come out of north Africa?

Ref staked draw and under 2.5. So we understand

Apologies no accepted

Okay

I don’t blame them
He needs more rehabilitation than more matches to officiate

People who look like Victims of Genocide asked to officiate crucial matches