Gender Segregation in Iranian Football

[Satchmo Distel]

Iran today allowed women to attend its WCQ (under FIFA pressure) but only allowed them to purchase around 3,500 tickets for a 78,000 capacity stadium. BBC and Grauniad reports:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50002658

https://www.theguardian.com/football...lifer-cambodia

Hopefully, the pressure will mount for better 'concessions' than this token effort.

[seand]

Obviously the Iranian lads were inspired by the presence of 3,000 potential WAGs ..... 14-0 winners over Cambodia

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...160637819.html

[Mumpo]

I don't even know what '14' is in Farsi (or 'nil', to be fair)