Which referee did most damage to Iran?

[Kiarash]

Pick one.

[K. Nader]

Definitely Williams. Iran was in complete control of the game until the ridiculous red card. Like 2004, a tournament where we had a very high possibility of winning was stripped from us. I'm not saying we are entitled to the championship but we sure had an excellent opportunity to win it.

The missed penalty call in the Argentina game was bad but overall, this was the worst refereeing performance I've seen against Iran alongside the semi-finals of the 2004 Asian Cup.

[Kiarash]

Definitely Williams. Iran was in complete control of the game until the ridiculous red card. Like 2004, a tournament where we had a very high possibility of winning was stripped from us. I'm not saying we are entitled to the championship but we sure had an excellent opportunity to win it.

The missed penalty call in the Argentina game was bad but overall, this was the worst refereeing performance I've seen against Iran alongside the semi-finals of the 2004 Asian Cup.

Iran would have been playing against France if the penalty was called. I'm sure it would have stayed 1-0 and it would take Iran to the last 16 for the first time in history. For me it's really hard to pick one, although Wiliams blunders were twice as worse because the Asian Cup could be ours this year .

[Kavian]

It is called "ourselves" ...

[football.club]

Both of them are crap. But Williams is the worst referee I have ever seen. He is a joke and he should be thrown out of AFC. He looks completely disoriented (lost, confused, dumb, shitty, crappy, joke, clown).

He would probably fail big time on a medical test (psychology). His short term memory is in the same level as a donkey.

[Nariman]

The penalty not given to Iran vs. Argentina was a quite poor decision by the referee, but unfortunately it does happen in football time after time. We can only speculate whether we had converted that penalty, would have been able to keep the win or not.

However in case of Al Ben Williams we are talking about a totally ridiculous sent off that is not part of normal referee mistakes. Both yellow cards were wrong, foreign expert confirmed this. Throughout the whole match Williams continued making pathetic calls. This totally destroyed the flow of the game and changed the outcome of the match and probably even of the whole tournament.

[irani8perspolis]

Mazic just missed a clear penalty otherwise other than a few shady moments he was alright, Ben Williams was constantly sht the entire match. Also didn't send off 2 iraqi players with second yellow.

[football.club]

according to wikipedia he is a high school teacher hahah. I hope there are some iranian students in that class that can teach him a lesson.

[metallica69]

I hope I never see Williams, just saying

[Damavand]

By far Williams. That Mazic guy was not out to get us. but the Scumbag Williams had made up his mind before the game had started.

[CHaMiLLionaire]

For me, the most obvious damage was caused by Ben Williams. We were in control of the game and we were creating chance after chance while Iraq didn't even have time to take their fingers out of their asses to even cause one problem to our team. Unfortunately, our system is structured in a way that if we lose a player, the whole harmony of the team breaks down and as we noticed all three goals that Iraq scored were from the left side where Hajsafi would usually have Pooladi to cover up the incoming players.

If Pooladi was there, the first goal would've been cleared out by him before it got to the Iraqi player.
If Pooladi was there, Younis would've been marked and didn't have that much space to produce a diving header.
If Pooladi was there, PAG wouldn't have to rush across the box to tackle the Iraqi player who was going on goal...rather I suspect the ball would've been cleared earlier.

Ofcourse all of this are ifs and buts...however, that red card affected us the most. I would've rather have had Shojaei sent off than Pooladi.


This team deserved to go through to the semi finals, they had the team spirit, harmony and talent. We are all upset, because we got robbed. Notice how we didnt get this upset when we lost to Korea in 2007 and 2011, because we didn't get robbed. This time, however it's like someone killed your parents and got away with it. The whole doping case is another emotional story.


The second most damage done to us was the game against China in 2004 where we definitely had the best team in the entire tournament and would've probably won the entire thing. Unbelievable, Chinese player gets pushed- Zarei gets red carded. Iraqi player pushes our guy, Pooladi gets red carded. Our luck is terrible.


The third most damage done ifor me is the Argentina game for obvious reasons. Mazic made an error that happens in football, but he wasn't out to get us. Ben Williams had a grudge.

[KC McElroy]

This poll is incomplete without Jamal Al Sharif (1992 AC vs. Japan) and Talaat Najm (2004 AC vs. China).

[IranPowned]

Don't forget Ghandour in 1996. He was a bitch

[AminGP]

This poll is incomplete without Jamal Al Sharif (1992 AC vs. Japan) and Talaat Najm (2004 AC vs. China).

And Jamal Al-Ghandour was terrible as well. Our match against Saudi in semi final of 1996

[shayan_esteghlali]

Which referee did most damage to Iran?

Faghani is reffing the iraq-korea game, i hope he gives younis a red card just for shits and giggles