Togo Banned? Are You Kidding Me?

National League volleyball team Dulwich Tuskers were recently forced to forfeit their cup match against Chester by the EVA after failing to trudge over 200 miles in adverse weather conditions to play the match. The team are obviously bitter about this decision, partly because Premier League football teams were cancelling their matches around the same time but mostly because making it through the first round of the cup was the only glimmer of hope in their dismal season. But Tuskers have it easy compared to the Togo National football team. After having endured a savage ambush, withdrawing from the tournament and laying their friends and colleagues to rest, they were slapped with a two tournament ban from the African Cup of Nations. The ban was apparently imposed because Togo’s government made the decision to withdraw and not the team which breached CAF’s rules regarding government interference.