President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s patience with what we can only assume to be the turgid proceedings between FC Tevragh-Zeina and ACS Ksar had reached a head, and instead of waiting it out, he simply ordered that the two teams skip the remaining minutes.



With the score at 1-1 and much to the referee's dismay, he was dealt the instructions and spot kicks duly followed.

Tevragh-Zeina won the shootout and lifted the trophy, but the outlandish decision gave way to a surge of understandable outrage, to which the league’s footballing federation responded with a statement from its own president:



“I deny in the strongest terms the intervention of the President of the Republic,” Ahmed Ould Abderrahmane wrote in a statement. “The decision was made due ​​to organizational issues in accordance with the presidents and the coaches of the two teams.”

Sure it was.