Iranian state TV cut away from this game over 100 times. Not because the director was a Spurs fan and he tried to erase the second half, but because Sian Massey was running the line. ****'s sake.
Football is indeed a contact sport, when Penited are attacking though, every little bit of contact on one of their players in the penalty area (no matter how miniscule), is almost always followed by a dive and subsequent undeserved penalty kick. Gollum knows what he is doing, he is not stupid, he realizes his team is being dragged along by the officials and that they benefit from favourable refereeing on an almost weekly basis, so he tries to deflect the focus away from his own team and put it on to somebody else, the result is nobody talking about Penandes` etc diving or the amount of ridiculously soft penalties his team enjoy, but instead the focus is undeservedly on somebody else. I see Gollum has been gobbing off again on Skyte Sports, the bloke really is a hypocrite and grade A mug.
Jeez, once upon a time you'd have settled for a 1-3 defeat at home to Utd. Ideas above your station - that's the problem here