Iran's Throat is Cut Again by the Ref. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE

[1Heesham1]

After more thought to this, Ben Williams made an innocent mistake. He gave pooladi the second yellow with actually realising it was his second yellow, and he was forced to give him the red then.

In retrospect, he might done otherwise if he knew pooladi was already given a yellow earlier.

Poor guy must be feeling pretty bad about himself. And I wondered why that referee in Europe committed suicide.

If you believe in luck, then it's fair to say the win wasn't meant to be.


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Mate the subsequent decisions made against Iraqi players later in the game were scandalous. He should have sent that Iraqi player off if he wanted to even out his initial rash/ poor decision.

Not to mention not booking a single Iraqi player when the fight broke out!

its hard to tell if he had an agenda, but based on the evidence it is likely.

[KasraKhan]

If Ben Williams was a real man, he would've rescinded the 2nd yellow card to Pouladi once he realized his mistake. That's what a man would've done. Admitted his mistake, and take it on the chin.

That's probably not legal according to FIFA rules, but he should've subjected himself to FIFA punishment. Instead, he took the easy way out, gave Pouladi a red-card, and sacrificed the happiness of 70 million, just to save his own ass.

Not a man. Not a real man.

[Bagg10]

After more thought to this, Ben Williams made an innocent mistake. He gave pooladi the second yellow with actually realising it was his second yellow, and he was forced to give him the red then.

In retrospect, he might done otherwise if he knew pooladi was already given a yellow earlier.

Poor guy must be feeling pretty bad about himself. And I wondered why that referee in Europe committed suicide.

If you believe in luck, then it's fair to say the win wasn't meant to be.


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You use the word "innocent" very loosely...

[ArminSh]

After more thought to this, Ben Williams made an innocent mistake. He gave pooladi the second yellow with actually realising it was his second yellow, and he was forced to give him the red then.

In retrospect, he might done otherwise if he knew pooladi was already given a yellow earlier.

Poor guy must be feeling pretty bad about himself. And I wondered why that referee in Europe committed suicide.

If you believe in luck, then it's fair to say the win wasn't meant to be.

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Yea but thats horrible mistake by him. It wasnt too long ago before that incident when he carded pooladi, and at that point in the game there wasnt too many players carded.

[persian4life]

thanks, but i ment the post match interview want to hear what carlos has to say about all this.

[littlepersia17]

Iran's Throat is Cut Again by the Ref. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE

After more thought to this, Ben Williams made an innocent mistake. He gave pooladi the second yellow with actually realising it was his second yellow, and he was forced to give him the red then.

In retrospect, he might done otherwise if he knew pooladi was already given a yellow earlier.

Poor guy must be feeling pretty bad about himself. And I wondered why that referee in Europe committed suicide.

If you believe in luck, then it's fair to say the win wasn't meant to be.


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[1Heesham1]

where can we watch the post match? or too late?

here (its in tazi though):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8jG4BFYL4

[Oz1]

I know everyone is pissed off right now. Let's take the emotion to the side. Whenever you fall down on purpose and try to trick the referee into giving another player a yellow card, then you deserve to be carded. The Iraqi goalie pushed you a little bit and you fall down so hard as if Mike Tyson has punched your lights out. The only problem is that other referees don't have the balls to consistently card players for such acting. Brave to Ben Williams.

If Pooladi got up even after the 4th time the ref asked him to Iran would have likely won this game but he didn't. Pooladi made his own bed and TM's too.

[persian4life]

where can we watch the post match? or too late?

[eissan]

I know everyone is pissed off right now. Let's take the emotion to the side. Whenever you fall down on purpose and try to trick the referee into giving another player a yellow card, then you deserve to be carded. The Iraqi goalie pushed you a little bit and you fall down so hard as if Mike Tyson has punched your lights out. The only problem is that other referees don't have the balls to consistently card players for such acting. Brave to Ben Williams.

Ok sure, simulation is card. What about Younis in the second half?? He had 2 plays in the span of 2 minutes where he simulated a dive. Where is his yellow? In OT, their player BLATANTLY kicks Haghighi's hand/arm, where is is his RED CARD!(he had no shot on net, he was just going in to injure!!)

[Karimi 8]

Ref knew he made a mistake, he didnt know he already had given a bs yellow. and his calls later in the game showed he knew he fucked up

[ArminSh]

The real reason why he gave that red card given the situation was that he was too focused on getting his head out of his ass he forgot he booked pooladi aleady and when Iraqi players went ape shit, he realized it and then red carded him. Makes me furious because you know he would not have given the red card if he knew. Mistake by him, cost us the semis.

[Dejagah]

To those saying Pouladi deserved a yellow card for diving they're wrong. If there was complete simulation, yes; if there was no contact whatsoever and he fell to the ground you have a point but there was unneeded physical contact.

[The Realist]

For those that don't blame the ref for an early sending off and blame CQ for not making any improvement to Team Meli, I ask you a simple question, What do you think the final score would have been if we had finished the game with 11 men?

[Nokhodi]

I know everyone is pissed off right now. Let's take the emotion to the side. Whenever you fall down on purpose and try to trick the referee into giving another player a yellow card, then you deserve to be carded. The Iraqi goalie pushed you a little bit and you fall down so hard as if Mike Tyson has punched your lights out. The only problem is that other referees don't have the balls to consistently card players for such acting. Brave to Ben Williams.

The kind of talk Iranian defeatists love repeating.
Let's say you're right - at the very least the goalkeeper should also have been carded.
No ref anywhere would give a yellow card for that especially if the player already had a yellow.
F*** that ref.