To be honest pro Shah Iranians are a bit weird. Its one thing being against the current regime in Iran which is fair enough but to want to replace it with a monarchy and the son of a despot / absolute dictator. I mean. Ok.

DO - I know, and I loved it ☺️👏

Came 4th

A4e - pretty sure Trig's 'meddle' was deliberate!

John Galt came in 4th.

John Galt is running in the 14.07 at Kempton today.

Mullah did he play for Germany?

Trigs-what Red Kite said. The only images we got of Iran were mad mullahs

A lot of the pro Shah Iranians 9r Persians took the opportuniry to leave after the 1979 revolution. I had a iranian girlfriend and we use to go on protests. Back in the day

Postie - thanks for your message - it made me do a double take, I hadn’t actually twigged that our game is on Sunday at noon… 🤪🤷🏻‍♂️😂

I don’t even wanna know what you were expecting CW

I remember flying from Stansted to see Iran v Angola in Leipzig in the 2006 World Cup and being amazed that I was on a flight full of Iranians from north London and how chilled they all were

No trams this weekend to Wimbledon if you going that way for sun game

keefy - that’s good, I hope she gets to see them soon, and hope it reaches a peaceful and better conclusion quickly 🤞

UAE have more money so Infantino will find a way to get them in

It's very quiet on here without a sprinkling of politics. Nowt wrong with that.

Trigg - meddle 😂👏👏

Was listening to an “expert” on the radio the other day and they were saying UAE are frontrunners to replace Iran if they do pull out, followed by Iraq, but there are no rules or processes to follow it is simply down to FIFA to decide for themselves.

Think that's UAE?

OI - I can skip links, of course, but where they’re political, it’s surely better that we just avoid posting them, especially since it was generally recognised that all such posts risk a descent into the silly arguments of the past, which I think most of us have been very happy to see the back of… No criticism of you here, just saying that maybe politics is best avoided on here - and you’re correct, any post about the Iran situation is a political post 👍

That would be neighbours Iraq who are in the playoffs end of this month - they play winners of Bolivia or Suriname. Maybe they give Iraq a free pass and promote the next one to the playoffs?

Presumably the spot will go to the next best team from Asia

How will they decide who the 48th country is now to take Iran's place?

Hadn't realised how many palm trees there are in worcester park,.counted 7 on a 15 min walk.

Iran is politics unless specifically about them taking part / withdrawing from the World Cup. Reddit and Spit's x spot can be avoided by a4e so it really isn't important how good or rubbish they are. Views on Iran will differ dramatically so please don't troll.