Senior South African Football Association (Safa) officials will travel to Switzerland shortly to voice their unhappiness with Fifa after the world governing body ordered Bafana Bafana to replay their 2018 World Cup qualifier against Senegal. Bafana beat the Senegalese 2-1 in Polokwane in November 2016‚ but the qualifier came under scrutiny after the West Africans reported controversial referee Joseph Lamptey’s performance to Fifa. Safa officials faced considerable criticism from the public after they announced on Tuesday they would not challenge Fifa’s decision on moral and ethical grounds. The association did not want to benefit from match manipulation‚ even if Fifa had established no wrongdoing on the part of SA. CEO Dennis Mumble said on Wednesday Safa was as unhappy as the nation’s soccer lovers and he would travel to the Fifa headquarters with the association’s legal committee head, Norman Arendse, to communicate the country’s annoyance. ‘‘The way it stands right now‚ we will r...
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