{"id":423462,"date":"2017-09-29T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/29\/i-made-a-big-mistake-against-senegal-referee-j-o-lamptey\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:00:32","slug":"i-made-a-big-mistake-against-senegal-referee-j-o-lamptey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/29\/i-made-a-big-mistake-against-senegal-referee-j-o-lamptey\/","title":{"rendered":"I made a big mistake against Senegal &#8211; Referee J.O. Lamptey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday, 29 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-29<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/54302566.295.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Lamptey Ref1\" title=\"Joseph Lamptey Ref1\" width=\"295\" height=\"205\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Referee Joseph Lamptey<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1506693632_277_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghanaian referee, Joseph Odartey Lamptey, has finally spoken about his error in his handling of the South Africa vs Senegal match in the 2018 World Cup qualifier in 2016 which led to FIFA banning for life and calling for a replay of the match.<\/p>\n<p>He awarded a first half penalty to South Africa despite replays showing that the ball clearly touched the thigh of Senegalese defender Kalidou Koulibaly.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese authorities complained to the Confederation of African Football  and that led to Lamptey getting banned for three months.<\/p>\n<p>The matter got to FIFA and the entity handed Lamptey lifetime ban after its investigations said that Lamptey had \u201cmanipulated\u201d the match.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Senegal News Agency or L\u2019Agence de presse s\u00e9n\u00e9galaise and published by Afrik Foot, Lamptey said that the error was genuine and he was not trying to favour the South Africans in any way or form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deeply love Senegal. I can tell you that I felt deep pain after having done such an injustice against that country. I really love your country. My mistake was never intentional. That happens to you in your line of work as a journalist.<\/p>\n<p><b>Right or wrong?<\/b> It is truly a human error but never did I want to do something against Senegal or its interests. When I came back from the match in South Africa, my wife kept asking me what I had done to the Senegalese people. I told her so many times that it was a huge error I made against a country I adore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The replay of the match between South Africa and Senegal will be played in November this year.<\/p>\n<p>Even though, South African football officials were initially not comfortable with the idea, they later accepted the idea and FIFA has gone to pay an amount of USD 380,000 to the South African Football Association to cover the cost of the first match played in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 4 updated by: 4 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Friday, 29 September 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-09-29 Referee Joseph Lamptey &#13; Ghanaian referee, Joseph Odartey Lamptey, has finally spoken about his error in his handling of the South Africa vs Senegal match in the 2018 World Cup qualifier in 2016 which led to FIFA banning for life and calling for a replay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":402859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I made a big mistake against Senegal - Referee J.O. 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