YOU ALL KEEP FOLLOWING OUR FOOTBALL LIKE BLIND SHEEP!

[CAGE]

How many times do we need to get fucked over by the AFC in every major tournament for you guys to realize whats going on? From China in 2004 AC to Iraq in last Asian cup to now Saudi which always seems to get a penalty for wind blowing at them in every game by some fucking shit referee to stop our progress and you guys have hope for anything? We cannot progress like this we need to petition for video technology to be used in football like it is used in volleyball, This is absolute bullshit

[DJPedram]

We need to get some our of people in AFC to make changes.

[CHaMiLLionaire]

When you get scored on 6 times, you cannot blame the ref or afc.

[CAGE]

^^ when you get a shitty penalty call early in the game it fucks your morale and motivation

[Sly]

^^ when you get a shitty penalty call early in the game it fucks your morale and motivation

Then it is still you who need to fix that problem! Not the referee nor AFC!

Penalties are scored early in games all the times! That should not be an excuse!

[Nariman]

When you get scored on 6 times, you cannot blame the ref or afc.

In this case, of course you can, (btw. we also scored 5 )
You can’t FULLY put the blame on them - nobody actually did that anyway - but you can blame them to a large part.

Point is that even despite not playing good, with a better refereeing and less of the usual dirty arab games - we could have avoided such a loss. And I think this thread is not only about today...

[AIrani]

I am not upset AT ALL with the loss. It does not bother me.

Iran's U-19 will be in 2017 world cup. This is important.

Iranian players need to face Arab teams to learn how dirty they play. Iraq and Syria used to and still play better than most Persian Gulf Arab states. Bahrain which was an Iran's island is notorious for dirty playing, after them it is Saudis.

Arabs have given bad name to AFC. If I were Iran, I would leave AFC and create another federation with Central Asian teams. I am GLAD Iran left West Asian teams and will play in Central Asia instead. Good choice.

[CHaMiLLionaire]

In this case, of course you can, (btw. we also scored 5 )
You can’t FULLY put the blame on them - nobody actually did that anyway - but you can blame them to a large part.

Point is that even despite not playing good, with a better refereeing and less of the usual dirty arab games - we could have avoided such a loss. And I think this thread is not only about today...

with better coaching and basic tactics, we could've avoided such a loss.

point is there are a lot of factors besides reffing and AFC.

I am not denying that there is a genuine bias towards Iran when it comes to shitty refs and AFC.... but we are more than capable of not letting the ref or AFC affect our game.

[Nariman]

with better coaching and basic tactics, we could've avoided such a loss.
point is there are a lot of factors besides reffing and AFC.
I am not denying that there is a genuine bias towards Iran when it comes to shitty refs and AFC.... but we are more than capable of not letting the ref or AFC affect our game.

The bold part is actually what everybody agrees with and I think CAGE is also not denying that we had our own weaknesses. Still it has to be said that even if we play good & are the better team, one bad call by the referee can affect the whole game and change the result. While arabs always easily get away with things despite not being even superior, Iran always has to give 2 times more than them to compensate the blatant disadvantages. This has been the case for so many years and so I totally feel what CAGE means.

[persianallstars]

I've asked two friends who are referees. I showed them the scene and both agreed that this was a penalty caused by our no 4 who was completely clueless today. One of them also said that in one scene the Arab defender played the ball with his hand in the penalty area which the Asian Referee didn't penalize.

[Gotham]

I've asked two friends who are referees. I showed them the scene and both agreed that this was a penalty caused by our no 4 who was completely clueless today. One of them also said that in one scene the Arab defender played the ball with his hand in the penalty area which the Asian Referee didn't penalize.

I'm a ref too but how? I didn't see enough contact in that PK call, looked like he threw himself down.

[eerooni]

As long as our people in IFF are weak. Illiterate and don't speak or write English we will have our rights abused by AFC. Put me in charge of correspondence and I will write a bin of a letter to AFC copying FIFA That will arrest the ref and the head of the refereeing committee!!!!

[teammelli91]

Take it easy guys.

That penalty was BS, but what about the other goals?

Our defense was not good and therefore we lost.

[teammelli91]

But that bicycle though..

Damn that was sexy

[EKBATAN]

AFC, IFF they're all garbage and our football has slow progress. But this game against Saudi i blame our weak mentality and lack of focus.