The Africa Cup of Nations witnessed some drama on Tuesday, displaying referee stopping the match before the stipulated time in Mali’s controversial 1-0 win over Tunisia.
Referee Janny Sikazwe ended the match after just 85 minutes before restarting the game again, but then blew again with 20mins remaining from the time allotted for full match.
His mistake infuriated.members of the Tunisia bench, with Coach Mondher Kebaier angrily grabbing the arm of the referee and pointing to his watch after her blue for full time.
The Tunisia coach was then joined by other staff to express their feelings.
It took the intervention of the security staff to calm the situation down.
Later on, the the Post-match press conference of Mali head coach Mohamed Magassouba was interrupted when AFCON officials stormed the venue and ordered that the match should be restarted to play the final three minutes.
The stand was then filled up as fans now came back to their sits
But, Tunisia refuse to come out and play the for the remaining time of the game, even as Mali and the referee waited for them on the pitch.
The match was then called of by the Referee.
It is believed that the error in timing was as a result of the Referee not pausing his stop watch when he blew for five minutes water break.
