No. I'm not talking about CQ making an easy campaign of WCQ's into yet another tough road with a whole lot of the usual "ifs & buts".
I'm talking about the final 3 rapid-fire games where our last game against the south koreans, as detrimental and crucial as it became (no thanks to some poor handling of the campaign), just got even more complicated and difficult for us.
I hear they changed the venue of the game from Seoul to Ulsan. And apparently Ulsan does not have an international airport!
I know the apologists will flock all around and say silly inanities like "so what" or "they have airprots" or the great general cliche of "if we want to play in WC, we have to ...."!!! so I'm going to (try to) ignore such mindnumbing foolishness.
the problem with this change of venue is that now, our lads have to travel to seoul and then change airports to the domestic, and then board yet another flight to Ulsan. That is if IFF is not cheap enough to get them a bus ride!! highly possible with these cheapskates.
And I'm not even going to fool myself that for once, they will use our "beit-ol-maal" properly and actualy charter a plane that flies straight to Ulsan. That would be like expecting the morons at IFF to "think"! That's asking for too much.
so now, we have 3 games in rapid successions with two away games, first one in scorching heat of summer in qatar, and a game with extreme high pressure on our lads to make sure we get the 3 points ... then a flight back to Iran to play another high pressure, must-win game against lebanon, then another flight to Seoul (God knows where the stop-over would be and how long that one would take) and more shuffling to another domestic airport and yet another flight to Ulsan!
(... and some people think our 30+ "experienced" players will have the legs or stamina to show their "experience"!!!!)
This is an eye opening issue to all the fools who think South Korea will take it easy in their last game as they'd have qualified by then. There were other fools also (like me) who used to think Koreans played straight and wouldnt resort to such tactics. lesson learned.
now we rue all those opportunties we had earlier in the campaign to risk more and play more aggressively to give us a cushion for the final 3 games, so we wouldnt be this desperate to get the 9 points from the 3 last matches!
I'm talking about the final 3 rapid-fire games where our last game against the south koreans, as detrimental and crucial as it became (no thanks to some poor handling of the campaign), just got even more complicated and difficult for us.
I hear they changed the venue of the game from Seoul to Ulsan. And apparently Ulsan does not have an international airport!
I know the apologists will flock all around and say silly inanities like "so what" or "they have airprots" or the great general cliche of "if we want to play in WC, we have to ...."!!! so I'm going to (try to) ignore such mindnumbing foolishness.
the problem with this change of venue is that now, our lads have to travel to seoul and then change airports to the domestic, and then board yet another flight to Ulsan. That is if IFF is not cheap enough to get them a bus ride!! highly possible with these cheapskates.
And I'm not even going to fool myself that for once, they will use our "beit-ol-maal" properly and actualy charter a plane that flies straight to Ulsan. That would be like expecting the morons at IFF to "think"! That's asking for too much.
so now, we have 3 games in rapid successions with two away games, first one in scorching heat of summer in qatar, and a game with extreme high pressure on our lads to make sure we get the 3 points ... then a flight back to Iran to play another high pressure, must-win game against lebanon, then another flight to Seoul (God knows where the stop-over would be and how long that one would take) and more shuffling to another domestic airport and yet another flight to Ulsan!
(... and some people think our 30+ "experienced" players will have the legs or stamina to show their "experience"!!!!)
This is an eye opening issue to all the fools who think South Korea will take it easy in their last game as they'd have qualified by then. There were other fools also (like me) who used to think Koreans played straight and wouldnt resort to such tactics. lesson learned.
now we rue all those opportunties we had earlier in the campaign to risk more and play more aggressively to give us a cushion for the final 3 games, so we wouldnt be this desperate to get the 9 points from the 3 last matches!
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