Shame on us

[Nokhodi]

for forgetting that whenever we are strong contesters for the title, a ref will come along to screw us over.

You've all seen it, remember 2004, remember 1996.

The Asian title isn't worth anything. You get eliminated by a ref and noone cares.

Asian football will continue to get what it deserves on big international stage.

Williams should have never been allowed to whistle any other game after obviously trying to cheat Uzbekistan out of the competition in favour of Saudi Arabia.

And you cannot appoint him for another Iran match for certain after what happened in first match.

But huge respect to our boys, heroic and not even 12 vs. 10 they can beat us. Never ever.

Iran should simply ask to never have Asian refs for any of their games again. Only West European ones who at least hate Asian football equally.

And its times like this I remember why European media don't really cover Asian football.

[Martin-Reza]

They didn't beat us. They won a lottery, despite heavy favouring. Not much we can blame them for. But nothing we could do today. With any other ref this would have been 3-0 for us.

[teammelli8080]

and that's just soccer. think about all sports, abdevali in wrestling (x2 now including world championships this year) and so many before him, and on and on.

[Persian-Pride87]

Shame on all the 'fans' who are now talking shit about CQ and TM. They played magnificently considering the injustice they suffered. They played with gheyrat, the played with passion and they never gave up. We got robbed like so many times in the past by a ref. Even with this blatant bias against our boys, Iraq couldn't put us away until lottery time. We got robbed in this game. Its plain and simple.

Thank you to all the fans who support this team and this coach.

[Abtin]

"not even 12 vs. 10 they can beat us. Never ever."
Well, the tears on my face is telling me another story..

[Martin-Reza]

for forgetting that whenever we are strong contesters for the title, a ref will come along to screw us over.

You've all seen it, remember 2004, remember 1996.

The Asian title isn't worth anything. You get eliminated by a ref and noone cares.

Asian football will continue to get what it deserves on big international stage.

Williams should have never been allowed to whistle any other game after obviously trying to cheat Uzbekistan out of the competition in favour of Saudi Arabia.

And you cannot appoint him for another Iran match for certain after what happened in first match.

But huge respect to our boys, heroic and not even 12 vs. 10 they can beat us. Never ever.