[ 2016-11-14 ]

Ghanaians express joy at Black Stars’ loss to Egypt
Goals from Mohammed Salah and Abdallah El-Said in
each half dented Ghana’s hopes of making it to
the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The result leaves
the Black Stars five points behind group leaders
Egypt with four games to play.

You would have expected Ghanaians, upset with the
manner of the loss to the team that the Black
Stars beat 7-3 on aggregate to reach the last
World Cup, to take to social media to vent their
spleen. Not quite. It was not all anger on social
media as quite a number of Ghanaians
‘celebrated’ Egypt’s win. Given the bad
blood that clearly still exists following the
team’s disappointing showing in Brazil 2014,
they expressed their excitement at the possibility
of the Black Stars not making the World Cup after
qualifying for three successive tournaments.
Reasons ranged from the players being “cut down
to size” to “state resources being saved”.

Some fans took their fury out on the players and
head coach Avram Grant, some felt the managers of
the team for the dismal start to the qualifying
campaign.

Source - Citifmonline

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