I've never seen a team be treated, by people and the gods, as cruelly as Iran has in so many ways

I was about to write this: “FIFA, as always, terrible. Iran football fans—and all lovers of the game—should rightly should be furious. Horrendous lack of neutrality. Suck it FIFA” THEN FOR A MINUTE FUCKING ALGERIA MIGHT HAVE OVERRULED IT ALL but then goddamned Austria