[Football] Persia v Spain (ITV)

[Frutos]

Spain get the breakthrough.

Will the floodgates now open?

 

[vegster]

Ah, suddenly, Iran are showing a lot more urgency...

 

[Frutos]

1-1

EDIT: Or not...VAR says offside.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Lucks not with Iran

 

[Dave the OAP]

Persia? Is this the 19th Century?

This one really could go either way.

Edit: Blimey. It actually nearly did.

500 bc the Persian empire covered 45% of the known world and covered 50 million of the world's population of 112 million

 

[Weststander]

Very clear offside. VAR spot on.

Again, Iran-biased Tyldesley wouldn't say it was. The Mullahs must have paid the t*at handsomely.

 

[Jim D]

Very clear offside. VAR spot on.

Again, Iran-biased Tyldesley wouldn't say it was. The Mullahs must have paid the t*at handsomely.

If they did then they paid the wrong guy.....

 

[Papa Lazarou]

'our' man is on.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Our player has come on

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Again the commentator (idiot) says amazing atmosphere. IT IS A RUBBISH ATMOSPHERE. Football crowd noise should have ebb and flow as the game develops. Not a constant, incessant din which neither shows approval or displeasure.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Again the commentator (idiot) says amazing atmosphere. IT IS A RUBBISH ATMOSPHERE. Football crowd noise should have ebb and flow as the game develops. Not a constant, incessant din which neither shows approval or displeasure.

Like the match is being overseen by a malevolent race of giant noisy wasps

 

[Bold Seagull]

500 bc the Persian empire covered 45% of the known world and covered 50 million of the world's population of 112 million

So Persia v Persia then?

 

[LlcoolJ]

Good to see the Iranian ladies in the crowd ditching their burkas and hijabs.

Mostly from America, according to Clive.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Mostly from America, according to Clive.

There's no way any of them will be current residents in Iran, as they'd be arrested as soon as they return were that the case.

 

[Dave the OAP]

So Persia v Persia then?

Basically yes...the current Iran is a fraction of the empire that covered most of North Africa to India and southern Russia through the caucuses.

It was really the first of the worlds empires..then came Greek/ Roman/ and the European empires

 

[LamieRobertson]

Iran close again

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Should have scored

 

[LamieRobertson]

So Persia v Persia then?

Win win then...unless Persia B equalise

 

[Icy Gull]

Spain really aren’t all that are they?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Persia? Is this the 19th Century?

This one really could go either way.

Edit: Blimey. It actually nearly did.

It only changed in the 1970s. I remember the Shah leaving Tehran.