I read this morning that President Ahmadinejad's rabid anti-Jewish rhetoric has had unforeseen consequences. Apparently, the Iranian national football team has found that it is unable to arrange friendly matches, ahead of its participation in the 2006 World Cup Finals. Nobody wants to play Iran.
Interestingly enough, Wolfgang Overath, a German footballing legend, former Worldcup winner and Chairman of Cologne FC, has stated that Iran should be expelled from the World Cup. This got me thinking - perhaps countries such as Britain and the United States should forget about reporting Iran to the UN Security Council , and try instead to threaten Iran's expulsion from the World Cup. Just imagine how the Iranian population would react to Iran being kicked out of the World Cup! Ahmadinejad would be overthrown before you could say Felix Magath!
Well, we can always fantasize can't we?
