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FOOTBALL: Bored Mauritania President orders cup final to penalties - after an hour

According to reports ,Mauritania's President was so bored during his country's Super Cup final, he ordered the match to go to penalties, after just 63 minutes.

FOOTBALL: Bored Mauritania President orders cup final to penalties - after an hour

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s patience with what we can only assume to be the turgid proceedings between FC Tevragh-Zeina and ACS Ksar had reached a head, and instead of waiting it out, he simply ordered that the two teams skip the remaining minutes.

With the score at 1-1 and much to the referee's dismay, he was dealt the instructions and spot kicks duly followed.

Tevragh-Zeina won the shootout and lifted the trophy, but the outlandish decision gave way to a surge of understandable outrage, to which the league’s footballing federation responded with a statement from its own president:

“I deny in the strongest terms the intervention of the President of the Republic,” Ahmed Ould Abderrahmane wrote in a statement. “The decision was made due ​​to organizational issues in accordance with the presidents and the coaches of the two teams.”

Sure it was.