Hayatou is the winner as CAS refuses to hear Liberian appeal

Issa Hayatou

By Andrew Warshaw, Chief Correspondent

January 10 – Issa Hayatou’s (pictured) bid to carry on running African football without having to fight off a challenge for the leadership looks a lot stronger after the Liberian FA failed in a second appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) decision to suddenly change its rules over presidential elections.

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Mihir Bose: Football’s moral quagmire

mihir

Let us get this right. Luis Suarez is no more a cheat than most football players. I agree with those that argue that the moral spasm his handball goal has evoked is way over the top if not a touch hypocritical. I wonder if the critics have been to many football matches or if they have perhaps been too busy with other things to concentrate on what they are seeing.

If we are saying Suarez was cheating,

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