Rabat, Aug. 2 -- It is Groundhog Day in the Wydad vs. Esperance Tunis dossier after the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), which was expected to deliver a final verdict , ended up issuing a partial, non-binding ruling .

When Morocco's Wydad Casablanca (WAC) and Tunisia's Esperance Tunis (EST) lodged complaints with CAS after a controversial, for some scandalous, second leg of the final of the African Champions League, the broad expectation was that CAS would be the final arbiter in the matter.

Earlier this week, on July 31, however, the Lausanne-based institution ironically overruled the rematch decision previously made by CAF, the body governing African Football, while at the same time pointing out that "competent bodies" from the ...