It was not the bitterly disappointing 1-0 defeat against Nigeria at the Eastern Province Rugby Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday afternoon that hammered the final nails into Bafana Bafana's coffin in qualifying for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations finals. 
Banana fanna fo Bafano Bofana...An hour later, the world's 145th-ranked Sierra Leone beat Equatorial Guinea 2-1, which assured that their opponents finished bottom of the Group 4 qualifying segment rather than Sierra Leone, and in the process obliterated the glimmer of hope that remained of South Africa participating in the 2010 tournament in Angola.
This doesn't mean squat. I just hadda say that...
An involved system introduced by Fifa whereby the results of games involving teams finishing bottom in the qualifying groups are not taken into account ultimately sealed Bafana's fate -- with the fat lady chortling the unpalatable message that war-ravaged Sierra Leone, one of the minnows of world soccer and a country with a population of little more than six million, have effectively outmanoeuvred South Africa from the Nations Cup.