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

[Cataphract]

Referee Ben Williams winning no fans in Asia

The A-League's most polarising referee is at it again and this time it is not just Australian fans scratching their heads but all of Asia. Ben Williams, who was briefly stood down from officiating at A-League games this season, has developed a reputation for being a trigger-happy referee.

In his first game of the tournament, Iran v Bahrain, Iran's coach Carlos Quiroz was fined for saying Williams "wasn't at the level of the game" while the Uzbeks would have been far more incensed following Sunday's game against Saudi Arabia. They faced being bundled out of the Cup when Williams awarded a very contentious penalty to Saudi Arabia before cautioning Vitaliy Denisov for a soft challenge - the first of his seven cards handed out that night. Saudi Arabia scored to make it 1-1 to gain advantage in the race to the quarter-finals. To make it worse for the Uzbeks, he controversially disallowed a goal by blowing for a foul as the ball was on the way into the net. Luckily Uzbekistan scored two late goals to win 3-1 and still progress to the second round.

There's something in the air

With just two days before Australia play China in the quarter-final of the Asian Cup, the moths that have plagued Suncorp Stadium have not disappeared. Millions of moths hovered around the seats, function rooms, media centres, playing field, car park and, well, quite literally every nook and cranny of the spectacular arena. They were still present at Sunday night's press conference for the Iran v UAE Group C decider and are yet to vacate the arena. It's hoped they're gone before Thursday's quarter-final.

The composition of the tournament

The influx of so many cultures, nations and stories has possibly been the greatest aspect of the Asian Cup group stage. That is hard to tell, however, for TV viewers just watching the games unaware of what happens in the stands and without cultural context. Of the 16 teams, just three have a home strip that is not either completely white or red - Kuwait, Japan and Australia. Of the 24 group games, only four were contested without at least one nation whose official language is Arabic. Of the 16 flags raised in the stadium, six are variants of the Arabic flag as this tournament has the highest number of qualifiers from the Middle East and west Asia.

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[Cataphract]

The Australian referee lives in the United States?

No it is a random American dude, with the same name as Ibn Williams, living in the US, who Iranians have mistaken to be the ref Gotta love the Gheirat.

Nobody messes with Iran !

[metallica69]

[metallica69]

4 hours ago
Farhad Kamrani
Oh God, can it happen? Alaa Abduzzahra, the Iraqi midfielder, played the match using illegal ergogenic supplements! What will happen now?
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The above is from goal.com comments

[DRCha]

No, I believe the Iranian internet Mafia mistook this American guy for the actual Aussie ref because they have the same name.

Poor Williams.

[Persian-Pride87]

No, I believe the Iranian internet Mafia mistook this American guy for the actual Aussie ref because they have the same name.

The Australian referee lives in the United States?

[DireStraits]

Why nobody blames pouladi..this mf knows he has yellow and went into the iraqi gk and tried to act as if he was slapped...he should have not acted that way and walk away....i put all the blame on him and not on the referee

That is normal. The Iraq player beat him he throw himself. He did it unprefossionally but you see many of these things Arabs do too. Remember Iran q8 game

[DireStraits]

[persianallstars]

Why nobody blames pouladi..this mf knows he has yellow and went into the iraqi gk and tried to act as if he was slapped...he should have not acted that way and walk away....i put all the blame on him and not on the referee

then you obviously didn't analyze the situation properly.... He went after the ball, he turned away from the goalkeeper, perhaps there was a short contact between both and finally the shotor attitude came out of the goalkeeper and he pushed Pouladi aside, to be honest a dramatic stunt by him!
but let me tell you another story:
imagine if we both meet each other on the street and you are after a taxi and I'm as well. I'm angry that you are after the taxi after all. So I try to give you a nice slap but you are a bit faster than me and you can avoid my hand but as a reaction you fall down. The policeman who noticed our little "chat" comes over and instead of taking me away, he actually arrests you!
Now how do you feel about it? Would you still jump on yourself because you just fell down because you were possibly hurt? or would you condemn the policeman, who obviously made a wrong decision?

[iranrealist]

Why nobody blames pouladi..this mf knows he has yellow and went into the iraqi gk and tried to act as if he was slapped...he should have not acted that way and walk away....i put all the blame on him and not on the referee

[DRCha]

The Australian referee lives in the United States?

[saeed_noro]

[Martin-Reza]

^ don't feed the trolls

[Afat11]

lol we have been winning games constantly even under Ali Daei's reign - WTF are YOU talking about? GN made it to the quarters, Ghotbi made it to the quarters - If wins are what matters why did CQ choke when it mattered?

again stop with your excuses, this guy did this this guy did that - football is decided on the pitch and CQ's Iran wasn't able to deliver more than Branko Ivankovic's Iran or Afshin Ghotbi's Iran...the only difference was the huge amount of luck CQ had

and your last comment is really immature - your a respected member in this community, you could have gone without that

Hey man, just so you know, Ghotbi and Ghalenoie and Daei never had to face being a man down for 90 full minutes and actually came back, TWICE in one game.

We would have won the game had it not been for that bs refereeing. Daei lost to Saudis, Ghotbi was nothing against Koreans, while CQ has beaten them 3 times in a row. You can call it luck, but the fact that CQ could keep us lucky for so long makes him a damn horseshoe or 4-leaf clover.

We should have won tonight, and the only reason I am not overly upset is that we really played well despite it all. 3 goals isn't luck, especially when 2 are from set pieces.

We were fucked tonight by Ben Williams, not Carlos Queiroz.

[Frank Ocean]

haha yea right, we played our part of the game. tactics is tactics, you'd like to play ghalegohi style football and get your ass kicked right? since CQ took over we have been winning games consistenly. and win is what matters. we've played good football. if it doesn't suit your taste then we cannot change that, but your comments on some things are just pure bullshit!

you say we cannot have any excuse for our shortcommings on the pitch? where in the world have you been living? or perhaps youve been living on some other planet! you know that we only have 2 friendlies since WC has ended right? and that doesnt give us the right to complain about this? you go defend ali kafashian because that idiot was one of the reasons we lost today! that cunt should of complain immediatly when he heard wiliams is refereeing our match vs iraq while CQ has an open case against that prick! kafashian is the reason that we only have had 2 friendlies to prepare! if we had more we would of been way better! just look at the opportunities other teams are getting. if we would o fhad those we would of blasted iraq!

so go and do your research or atleast think logical before your type bullshit kid.

lol we have been winning games constantly even under Ali Daei's reign - WTF are YOU talking about? GN made it to the quarters, Ghotbi made it to the quarters - If wins are what matters why did CQ choke when it mattered?

again stop with your excuses, this guy did this this guy did that - football is decided on the pitch and CQ's Iran wasn't able to deliver more than Branko Ivankovic's Iran or Afshin Ghotbi's Iran...the only difference was the huge amount of luck CQ had

and your last comment is really immature - your a respected member in this community, you could have gone without that