Iliman Ndiaye and Idrissa Gana Gueye return to Finch Farm

Classy gesture. Well done.

A tremendous achievement from our two players

The club and players -- it's perfectly legitimate to walk off the pitch if you are unhappy with controversial ref/VAR decisions.

I'm looking forward to Senegal's punishment. I'd like to see them lose the cup and our two 'heroes' lose their gold medals.

Someone piss on your chips?

Mane was the one who wanted to carry on.

The two players are back, that's all that matters.

(eye roll)

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Eyes roll! Head Shakes!!!

Thanks for the articulate response that raises so many interesting issues and questions. You clearly have one view of Senegal's cheating shenanigans and I have another. I'm glad that I have mine.

Graham, if in the 92nd minute on Monday we get a second dodgy decision from the ref/VAR and Calvert-Lewin is waiting ball in hand to take the pen, it would be ace and proper, wouldn't it, if we just fucked off from the pitch?

I think that everyone should do it.

Given the fact you consider Senegal cheats, surely you wouldn't want to see the trophy awarded to Morocco?

Seeing as how Morocco also cheated in providing sub-standard facilities for everyone they played, including training pitches. Not to mention the pathetic efforts of the ball boys to throw away the goalkeeper's towels.

I am not, in any way, defending the action Senegal took. But Morocco were equally as bad in my opinion.

Annika, Morocco are not the first, nowhere near the only, and will be nowhere near the last to use home advantage in these ways. It's not cheating. It's shitty gamesmanship and I hate it. It's part of the game nowadays.

But cowardly walking off the pitch if you do not like a VAR/REF decision is not.

What do you think most captains and players would do, if the management ordered them off the pitch? I am not sure many players would totally defy the manager. Only Sadio Mane did, and he's a world star that can stand up to what he likes.

I don't agree with it, nor the terrible decisions before that ruled out a legitimate goal. From a neutral, it looked more than just home advantage in the semi & final.

Brentford got a man sent off, and some people on ToffeeWeb surprised me when they agreed with the decision. (The amount of subjectivity is incredible because we all see a different game.) The red card was later rescinded, but it took me a lot longer to get our embarrassing second-half performance out of my head.

During that second-half performance, it became embarrassingly clear that Dyche had stopped working on how to attack and score goals, and a part of me wished I had walked out of the stadium at half-time because I was disgusted at the sending off.

Paul, you think it's cowardly to walk off the pitch but not everyone takes decisions lying down and it was clear to a lot of people that Senegal had just been cheated in a major final.

If I'd have been away with my football team for a month and was being cheated in a major final, I'd have done the same if I was on the pitch, because I think cheating is abhorrent.

Maybe you feel different because you can justify gamesmanship, Paul, but how could you justify the two decisions that had just been given by the referee, and say that Senegal hadn't also just been cheated?

The alternative suggested elsewhere on these pages is to shun them?

Ndiaye and Gueye deserve their guard of honour.

Wrap Ndiaye in cotton wool now because, if we don't get any players in, he's our one ace card until the end of the season.

The responsibility lies with the manager.

Tthey have both won a very prestigious tournament and deserve all our congratulations.

As for walking off the pitch, that was down to the manager. Glad both are back injury-free.

Tony, we don't usually disagree but I thought it was a stonewall penalty, he was pulled over from behind.

My own thoughts are I would like to one day see my club as one that wins at any cost. I've had enough of being every other club's best mate.

He got strong-armed, and I have seen them given before, just like the Moroccan defender had been strong-armed a minute earlier when Senegal also had a goal ruled out.

You could therefore argue that the referee was consistent, but my own view of it was that good strong aggression had just been punished twice. Like I said in an earlier post, a lot of these decisions are very subjective because we all see different things.

And congrats to them both and great to have them back. The GoH was a nice touch.

Absolutely right. The officiating was absolutely disgraceful. Senegal still overcame it. Our two Everton representatives must have told them how to do it as they're used to it over here.