Ghana Lets Down Africa.....

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?? 

I woke up this morning depressed and wondering how Ghana, Africa's last remaining hope at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, failed to finally nail that Uruguay coffin once and for all!!

Despite holding their own for 120 minutes, The Black Stars were unable to match the South Americans from the penalty spot, going down 4-2 in a penalty shootout after the score stayed locked at 1-1 following extra time.

700 million plus people on this Continent held their breathe at the 90th minute when 'The Hand of God' swung Ghana's way and were awarded, nope, actually handed a penalty.... And what did we do? Asamouh Gyan fires the bloody jabulani to i dont know what direction, hitting the top bar with power and earning untold curses in every imaginaginable ethnic lanuguage all across Africa... nnkktt (font 1 billion is the politest i can come to on this blog!... but not that i didnt let out my curses then....)

Fast forward Extra Time and Ghana manages to tame a menacing Uruguay who were intermittently going for the jugular and failing by a whisker. From President John Atta Miles, wherever he caught the game from, to Madiba himself uniting South Africans and Africa for Ghana, to even South Africa's World Cup organisers abandoning any pretense of neutrality when it came to the team, and FIFA gods led by Sepp Blatter in the flesh, sitting in the VVIP boxes at the stadium to witness history in the making, the Whole literally standing still to the attention of this Ghanaian feat! 120 minutes and onto penalties, and i tweeted my wife in the Czech Republic and i was certain i must her told her baby, we are through! I could smell it, it could feel it, i could see it!.....

But Ghana didnt see what we were all seeing, experiencing, feeling....

John Mensah and Dominique Adiyah, in their casual dont care attitudes, thinking this was some Africa Cup of Nations tourney, uncreatively kick the most *^%&(#&@(# spot kicks i have ever seen in m entire life.... and the rest is history.... We were this close, thiiis close.....What did we miss to see in these opportunities Ghana....Oh Ghanaaaaaaa! What did we miss to see........