Cranes subdued at own party

Uganda Cranes’ party had been triggered the evening before the day after. True, Uganda had done their business early to top Group K and qualify with 10 points after four matches. 

But it was during and after South Africa squeezed life out of the Cranes at Namboole on Friday evening that you – in retrospect – sighed in big relief that South Sudan’s 3-2 victory over Congo in Juba on Thursday had, thank God, completed the job for Uganda.

Second half goals from Thapelo Morena and Patrick Patrick Maswanganyi secured South Africa a 2-0 victory at Namboole, which was also Uganda’s…