South Africa’s harshly judgemental public and the media showed little mercy that Bafana Bafana, at number 72 on the FIFA Ranking, was humiliated 3-1 my Mauritania, ranked 114th.
In newspaper headlines they were referred to as “Bungling Bafana”, while another one described the match as a “damn disaster”. The country’s biggest Sunday newspaper’s headline simply said, “Embarrassing”.
As expected, football fans took to social media in droves to vent.
South Africa is bottom of Group M with only a miracle which can see the team qualify.
