Gab Marcotti

But just in terms of what seems fair now, what to you seems fair as punishment for Senegal?

You can't.

So you don't think there's a basis to do that?

No, I don't think so.

It seems extraordinary.

I generally don't know what's going to happen.

Morocco, as we were talking about off-air, a really powerful country in the FIFA sphere, and I think within CAF too, because they're bringing money.

They're putting a lot of money into the game.

And I don't even know if I were in Morocco and if I would want the...

afghan to be awarded to me not based on what i did but based on the fact that the opposition true you know did something bad and you had the chance to win it with a penalty and of course i i had the chance to win it with my family we can also ask like why was brian diaz giving me you know there's just a lot of second completely but all that said um it feels a little bit wrong that

you could win it.

And then one thing for me that saves it for Senegal is that if we strip the nonsense incidents aside and you just look at the football, they were the better team in the final against the best team in Africa.

I guarantee you 1,000% that our old friend Pierluigi Colina is going to come out and say, hey, you walk off the pitch, you take your team off the pitch for anything other than racist incidents, you forfeit the game.

But that's what the rules say.

He might tell us that, hey, look, in World Cup, it's going to be you guys are off the pitch.

If the entire team is off the pitch for more than 30 seconds or whatever it is, game's over.

No ifs, ands, or buts.

And I think you have to do that.

And again, this referee had the power to do that, and he chose not to.

All right, enough Ascon.