Who thought Angola was a good place to run a tournament?
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Who thought Angola was a good place to run a tournament?
The Togo team bus, including Adabayor who UK players will know, has come under sustained machine gun fire.
Sketchy reports so far, but it sounds like there may be casualties.
Sketchy reports so far, but it sounds like there may be casualties.
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2 injuries, as reported by the BBC.bobo the clown wrote:The Togo team bus, including Adabayor who UK players will know, has come under sustained machine gun fire.
Sketchy reports so far, but it sounds like there may be casualties.
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Re: Who ever though Angola was a good place to run a tournam
Hopefully, but these numbers only ever rise.Verbal wrote:2 injuries, as reported by the BBC.bobo the clown wrote:The Togo team bus, including Adabayor who UK players will know, has come under sustained machine gun fire.
Sketchy reports so far, but it sounds like there may be casualties.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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Driver killed, 4 seriously injured.
Sky Sports only seem to care about the two who play in the premier league though, which I found incredibly distasteful. "EMANUAL ADEBAYOR IS NOT AMONG THE INJURED"...and they may as well have added "(HIS LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT AS HE'S THE MOST FAMOUS ON THE BUS)"...
Seriously crazy shit though.
Sky Sports only seem to care about the two who play in the premier league though, which I found incredibly distasteful. "EMANUAL ADEBAYOR IS NOT AMONG THE INJURED"...and they may as well have added "(HIS LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT AS HE'S THE MOST FAMOUS ON THE BUS)"...
Seriously crazy shit though.
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Twenty plus years ago I applied for a job in Angola, starting to rebuild after the traumas of the war of Liberation against the Portuguese. Didn't get it - which i was sorry about, it looked like the future for a country rich in many ways was bright, with a government claiming to want redistribution of wealth, universal education etc.
The new government was supported by the Russians.
America and other Western powers supported an ethnically based opposition with money and arms, decades of civil war followed, the place was wrecked in every imaginable way.
Another horrendous tale of Africa paying the forfeit in someone else's game. It was a cold war in Europe. But a hot and bloody and destructive one in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau as the Portuguese empire crumbled and the powers decided who their proxy armies were to be...
This is terrible news and the competition should be immediately abandoned.
The new government was supported by the Russians.
America and other Western powers supported an ethnically based opposition with money and arms, decades of civil war followed, the place was wrecked in every imaginable way.
Another horrendous tale of Africa paying the forfeit in someone else's game. It was a cold war in Europe. But a hot and bloody and destructive one in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau as the Portuguese empire crumbled and the powers decided who their proxy armies were to be...
This is terrible news and the competition should be immediately abandoned.
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I've found this;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ja ... hed-angola
But something else I read was that the driver's dead and nine of the team have been shot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ja ... hed-angola
But something else I read was that the driver's dead and nine of the team have been shot.
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Bollock all I imagine. The group who orchestrated attack are a secessionist group in a province of Angola which is actually geographically separate from the country. There was a ceasefire and all.officer_dibble wrote:Bloody hell this is mental, RIP those dead, but surely they should call the whole thing off now. What have these footballers and their associated staff done, over than try compete in a tournament?
It's ridiculous.
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That is just the way of the world though. Adebayor is well known and so what happens to him is of interest to a larger number of people. Unfortunate in many ways, but you can't change it.FD wrote:Driver killed, 4 seriously injured.
Sky Sports only seem to care about the two who play in the premier league though, which I found incredibly distasteful. "EMANUAL ADEBAYOR IS NOT AMONG THE INJURED"...and they may as well have added "(HIS LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT AS HE'S THE MOST FAMOUS ON THE BUS)"...
Seriously crazy shit though.
Horrible, horrible events. As ever with these things, I don't know what I think the best course of action is. It'd be a massive shame if the whole tournament got called off. It's a brilliant spectacle and one that I imagine can inspire people in Africa like nothing else. Obviously people's safety is paramount though.
The best idea would have been to not have it in fecking Angola ffs. It's truly horrible. RIP to those dead, and a swift recovery to the luckier ones. Yet again Bill Shankley proven wrong. Call it off now. It is a shame football wise, but you cannot risk a repeat.
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