It's late and in less than 3 hours the epic, mother of all Australian Open tennis finals between Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal will start. I know it's going to be an epic, but that doesn't mean I'll be up at 3.30. When the World Cup was on in South Korea and Japan in 2002 I was up at all hours. Fourteen years later I can't handle the day after a sleepless night.
My point was that I have to keep this short. I won't be up at 3.30 but still early to catch the end of it. The first two Afcon quarterfinals were played today. Burkina Faso beat Tunisia 2-0 and Cameroon beat Senegal on penalties, after a 0-0 draw.
Sadio Mane missed the last penalty for Senegal. I think his Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, texted him just before the penalty shoot-out started and pleaded with him to miss. "We really need you Sadio. These guys are lost without you. They went and lost against Wolves today in the FA Cup. Wolves! Yes, me too, I had never heard of that team before today. But somebody told me just before the match that their manager had won the European Cup with Borussia Dortmund once upon a time in the past. So I had to pretend that I respected Paul Lambert because he is a legend in Dortmund. Damn him. He did what I couldn't do with Dortmund and today he comes to Anfield with a team I'd never heard of and beats us. Please, Sadio, come back. And sorry this was a really long text. You're probably paying a lot of money just to read it. Save your money. Don't reply. See you soon. Please. Penalty miss, ahem, please."
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