So i turned off the TV to spare myself the headache.. but it didn't really stop there,since the aftermath of the game is all what everyone or anyone would talk about ;at work.. n the streets, at home..in facebook.. so it only fits that am posting my 3rd post on the matter in less than a week!
So i know we'd be stuck with these war drums for quite sometime now, and probably wouldn't get rid of this headache anytime soon.
it is a shame that all this is going on over a game of soccer, but all three countries feel it's not about the game anymore..and started taking it as a competition in patronism or a display of natinal pride.
The thrill in Sudan for hosting the game on our land, and considering it a win-win situation, regardless who wins the game, now sound both ridiculous and naive.
and it's clear now that no matter what we did, or didn't do.. we're still to blame- by the egyptians at least- for everything under the sun.
Insults tinted with mockery.. like:" Sudanese are incapable of organizing a birthday party, let alone a soccer game"!, is all over the news, thanx to the influence of the Egyptain media.
A couple of days into this media war,apparently after being condemned by Arabs in general for insulting sudan.. and maybe for their lack of evidence, many egyptian artists who earlier insulted sudan and acted as if Sudan was hell on earth, suddenly decided to switch gears and compliment Sudan instead.. contradicitng their earlier claims.
Even muhammed Foad who fueled this war on us by insulting our security forces- who allegedly abandoned him-and claimed he was being massacred in Sudan, shamelessly changed his claims, as if nothing's been said or done.. and even declared doing a concert here, as an apology i figure, for the Sudanese people.
Now, am not sure if many- if any- Sudanese people will be excited about this concert.
and maybe sometime in the future, relations between Egypt and Sudan will go back to normal, but for the time being the general feeling- which unfortunately matches my own- is that we're just a little too fed up with all the hypocrisy.. and any kind of apology is just too little too late..since the damage is already done.
**and i hope everyone-myself included- would stop talking about this! or maybe keep talking about it, until we bore ourselves into dropping it for good.
*** Below are images i found in facebook ( couldn't find out who took them.. to reference them).. of some algerian who stayed after the game to help clean the Airport.











