FIFA shoots yet another one off the hip!
By: Afshin Afshar | May 10th, 2008 | 0 Comments
I have no idea what the folks at FIFA have been smoking, but man they must have been in some “Purple Haze” when they suggested that the EPL should take a lesson from the Iranian Football Federation!
Yes, you read me right! That is exactly what they suggested!
As a diehard Iranian football fan, I’d be the first to tell you that our football federation has been out to lunch for many successive administrations; and worst yet, the bill has been charged to us the fans!
For me to read this nonsense is yet another proof that people in FIFA are either completely out of touch
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