Football Fever, continued.

Mahmoud:

I’m not a football guy, normally. The closest thing to a sport that I enjoy is one that involves big engine noises and things that go around a circuit, if Schumi is in one of those, then so much the better. The other kind of sport I enjoy occasionally is of the horizontal variety, but even that takes a back seat when the FIFA World Cup is on, it’s the one time every four years that even the F1 is unimportant! And it’s only a couple of days away..

In anticipation of that great day, that only comes about once every 4 years, here are some rules for you ladies (and woossies who “don’t like” football - no, it’s not soccer, it is FOOTBALL, you know, the kind that you play WITHOUT having to pad the hell out of yourself and behave like a giant woose on grass, it is football, what those padded woosies play is, well, woosy rugby!) ...

The Muslim Woman: Against Football Segregation in Iran

The Muslim Woman:

Even today, Iranian women are not allowed to enter the stadiums like the male counterparts.

Though President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad announced formally that the ban on women watching soccer has been lifted, he immediately had to take back his words because some of the leading clerics resented his decision, thereby pouring water on the beaming hope of thousands of female fans.

However, one thing is worth mentioning here that the taboo that had been in vogue since time immemorial regarding the non-existence of women soccer players is at last broken.

The Iran women’s football team has taken the first step towards glory by playing their first open-air football game against a foreign team.