As an African, i can understand what it feels like for a major competition like the AFCON to be disrespected, but then I had to look at the person who was making that disrespectful remark and it was Jamie Carragher, the Liverpool defender that we as all saw during his prime who wasn't among the leagues of defenders if we are to count good defenders during his playing time despite the fact that he was playing for Liverpool, of course El Hadji Diouf knows his teammate and he is sending those words to him. But another another angle to the whole drama is the fact that Jamie Carragher has apologized for those remarks, but then is still in the minds of people because is not something that should be coming out from the mouth of a career football player like Carragher, some words are like a broken Glass, no matter how you try to amend it, there will still be some cracks, but then, this is just a friendly game and the need to show sportsmanship should be shown by Diouf.
The AFCON has always been underrated and disregarded by Europeans so I’m not surprised that Jamie Carragher had the boldness to say that online. There are many others who feel the same way about African football, Carragher was just the scapegoat for speaking out what many Europeans think.