It’s easy to criticize the Iranian team, and I do it often, but each time I remind myself that the majority of this squad didn’t play in a domestic league through months of a criminal war and that their World Cup journey has been the most unfairly politicized one in history.
When the world cup was in Qatar we were subjected to nonstop hand wringing & moralizing about how evil Qatar is, but Iran is forced to play in a country that is bombing them & doesn't even see them as human and no one here cares because they also don't see Iranians as humans.
Liveleak in the pokemon world would go insane. Chinese factory voltorb explosion, man gets eaten by 30-50 feral mamoswine. Its rotomphone reels dawg its lit
Mark: (Look at me, I've got a girlfriend, a proper girlfriend reading a bestseller about child abuse. I go out and have croissants. I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.)