dandannieldanok Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 This game is pretty good considering what it looked like on paper, Iran are giving mexico a real test
dandannieldanok Posted 11 June 2006 Author Posted 11 June 2006 1-1, dodgy keeping i guess with the lack of interest in this thread that none of you are watching the game!
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Are there any signs Iran are enriching uranium in midfield?
Ricey Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 If it stays like this my slightly risky prediction in the prediction league would of been correct!
dandannieldanok Posted 11 June 2006 Author Posted 11 June 2006 If it stays like this my slightly risky prediction in the prediction league would of been correct! I don't think either defence is good enough for the game to stay 1-1
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Yeah, but what about nuclear weapons???
dandannieldanok Posted 11 June 2006 Author Posted 11 June 2006 Yeah, but what about nuclear weapons??? Don't know but if their first half performance is anything to go by, it could be quite a surprise
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Don't know but if their first half performance is anything to go by, it could be quite a surprise Do you think I should alert Dubya or do you reckon him and Condoleeza are watching already?
dandannieldanok Posted 11 June 2006 Author Posted 11 June 2006 Do you think I should alert Dubya or do you reckon him and Condoleeza are watching already?
Stevosevic Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Thats a shame, i predicted 2-1 in the prediction league, but they had to go and score the third.
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Any team associated with an FA that bans women from its matches deserves to have their asses whupped. Well played Meckico, bog off home Iran and sort your President out. That's President Imadinnerjacket who thinks the holocaust was a 'fantasy' and would personally like to bomb Israel off the face of the earth. Sorry to bring politics into sport and all that but Iran sucks.
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 The Iranian defence was just blown away today That's what happens when you mess with enriched uranium.
Steven Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 That's what happens when you mess with enriched uranium. Why shouldn't Iran have a Nuclear Electricity Generation program.
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Why shouldn't Iran have a Nuclear Electricity Generation program. Because they won't submit to the International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines. And where's the first place they're going to test a missile? Answers on a post card please.
Steven Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Because they won't submit to the International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines. And where's the first place they're going to test a missile? Answers on a post card please. Like Israel and India have.
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Like Israel and India have. I have the paperwork in front of me. They are fully compliant.
Jay Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Any team associated with an FA that bans women from its matches deserves to have their asses whupped. Well played Meckico, bog off home Iran and sort your President out. That's President Imadinnerjacket who thinks the holocaust was a 'fantasy' and would personally like to bomb Israel off the face of the earth. Sorry to bring politics into sport and all that but Iran sucks. The ban on women has recently been lifted by the dinner jacket bloke Because they won't submit to the International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines. And where's the first place they're going to test a missile? Answers on a post card please. can I just post Israel instead... but while I agree that any country and not just Iran should be banned from Nuclear weapons I also think that every country should have the right to defend themselves when needed, we would all want to do the same if some invaded England, but in no way do I support the killing of innocent people like in Iraq and with that Pyscho bush in power for another 3 years it's pretty obvious Iran is on his list!! can't have all that oil going to waste... so inconclusion I think the dinner jacket man is a very very dangerous character and the world needs to stick together and ensure that he doesn't carry out his wishes but the bloke in the whitehouse who I personally consider to be the most dangerous terrorist and biggest threat to world peace on this planet should also be stopped in doing whatever he wants!!! But the people in power are to blame not everyone in Iran is an evil person just like all Muslims are not Suicide Bombers and kicking Iran out will only harm the public of Iran!! Football and Politics should be 2 different things imo and politics should be sorted by those at the top just a shame that the people running the US and Iran are complete nuttcases on a football side I thought the Mexicans looked a very good side and could do well IMO
Steven Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 I have the paperwork in front of me. They are fully compliant. They are not even members of the International Atomic Energy Agency yet both have the bomb. Both have missiles. Answers on a post card please.
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Football is part of life and politics is life. We'll have to disagree on that. Has Iran said women can attend footy matches? When was the announcement? No doubt they'll be asked to wear veils, sit in a stand 2 miles from the pitch and be expected to dish up the half time oranges.
Jay Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Football is part of life and politics is life. We'll have to disagree on that. Has Iran said women can attend footy matches? When was the announcement? No doubt they'll be asked to wear veils, sit in a stand 2 miles from the pitch and be expected to dish up the half time oranges. it wa in this months 442 mag it says... Iran Womens' protests outside football grounds has finally paid off. President Mah..... dinnerjacket has lifted the 27 year ban on women attending major sporting events. "The presence of women and families in public places promotes chastity" explained the president " The best stands should be allocated to women and families in stadiums in which national and important matches are being played"
Sigma Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 The ban on women has recently been lifted by the dinner jacket bloke It was the Iranian President who lifted the ban, but he was overturned by the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has the final say on basically everything (from what I understand). http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php...09-040803-8438r http://www.persianfootball.com/pfdcnews200...91923902980.htm
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 Thanks for the updates. I've got this month's 4-4-2 and will check it out. There's a film reviewed in Friday's Guardian about Iranian women trying to get to watch a WC match. Looks interesting. Utterly appalling situation if women are barred. Never mind FIFA Fair Play campaigns" what about equal rights for women fans?
Chairman of the Bored Posted 11 June 2006 Posted 11 June 2006 AP - TEHRAN, Like others who come watch Iran's national soccer team prepare for the World Cup in July, they join in the chants and wave their flags. But these fans are cheering from outside the fence surrounding the field, barred by law from entering because they are women. On Monday, more than 50 female soccer fans -- from girls to mothers with baby strollers -- pressed against the wobbling chain-link fence, screaming, whistling, and trying to make sense of their exile. "We're out here like beggars in our own country trying to support our own nation's team," said 20-year-old Mina Tehrani, who was taking photos of the team with her cell phone. "Are we not Iranians? Are our cheers less important?" It's just the latest in the ever-shifting -- and seemingly arbitrary -- messages sent to women by Iran's Islamic establishment. Women work side by side men in nearly every setting, from state offices to passport control booths to parliament. In recent years, women have made headlines by taking places in police and fire departments. A few women cabbies cruise the streets of Tehran. But it appears a firm line is drawn around the soccer field. In April, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised his conservative backers by deciding that women could attend soccer games, but restricted them to a separate section of the stadium. Ahmadinejad -- an ardent soccer fan who once donned a jersey and kicked some balls with the national team -- said the women's presence would "improve soccer-watching manners and promote a healthy atmosphere." But Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, didn't agree. He has the final say on all matters in Iran, and his view on this one held: No women in the stands, even in a segregated section. So Hamid Ghomnam leans against the fence with his two daughters, 10 and 12, and watches the team run through its drills. A security officer tried to hustle away the women -- along with their husbands, boyfriends and fathers -- claiming even the parking lot side of the fence is off limits. But the crowd stood firm. Fingers clenched around the rusting fence, which bulged and swayed under their weight. "I am ashamed to have my daughters out here in the parking lot looking in," said Ghomnam, 49. "But it makes me proud to show them women standing up against this very stupid rule." A short way down the fence, Sima Babri called a friend to give a full description of the training. A Winnie the Pooh bauble dangled from her cell phone. She wore the springtime uniform of trendy, 20-something women across Tehran: denim jeans rolled high up on a calf, a form-fitting cotton tunic and a colorful headscarf that covered less hair than was blowing free. "I'm here because I love the team," said Babri, 21. "But I'm also making a personal stand. We cannot just always back down." Now, however, even Babri's clothes could be in jeopardy. A vaguely worded proposal is working its way through the Iranian parliament that would encourage traditional Iranian and Islamic-style clothing. It has stoked worries that Ahmadinejad's government could be planning to roll back the increasingly liberal dress codes that have been in place since the late 1990s. Women have been allowed into Tehran's stadium to watch soccer before. Five years ago, a group of Irish women was permitted to attend a World Cup qualifier between Iran and Ireland. In March, a group of about 40 Iranian women tried to enter the stadium for a World Cup warm-up match with Costa Rica. Authorities at first blocked them and then promised to allow them into to a reserved section. Instead, however, the women were put on a bus and driven around the city until the match ended. During Monday's training session, two women managed to beat the system. Sabo Tehrani and her daughter arrived hours before security and found a spot inside the stadium compound along a wall near the stands. Outside the fence, the women chanted: "We will be inside someday." A few men in the stands answered: "Sisters, don't give up!"
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