Madagascar, football and viewing the triumph from far away
Fort Dauphin is a town in the southeast of Madagascar. Home to the best part of 40,000 people, it is a town that, from the capital Antananarivo, essentially is only reachable [...]
AFCON
Micho’s Mind: Squad selection is like a precise neurosurgery operation
The subject of squad selection has always been a sensitive matter. It is sensitive in the sense that everyone has an opinion on it, as we have seen in the past fortnight as [...]
Time to rethink the FIFA calendar?
The timing of AFCON is a biennial discussion, with the tug of war between European clubs and AFCON-qualified countries in the weeks before the tournament resulting in [...]
The Economy of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations
By Maher Mezahi THE JURY IS SPLIT ON BONGO A solitary Republican Guard footman keeps watch in front of President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s home in La Sablière, north Libreville. [...]
SFG Cult Heroes: Paul Keba Koulibaly
By Sam Crocker (@sam_crock) In the premiere of the brand new SFG series Cult Heroes, Sam Crocker rhapsodises about the Burkina Faso journeyman Paul Keba Koulibaly. We [...]
Sandals For Goalposts 