Posted on 05/08/2006 6:04:20 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Iran's hardline Islamic regime has had enough of footballers with long hair and plucked eyebrows.
"I will ban athletes with an effeminate look," the head of the country's Physical Education Organisation, Mohammad Ali-Abadi said, told the Etemad-Melli newspaper.
"It is really disgraceful for Iran that young people step onto fields wearing make-up," the top official fumed. "When a man enters the field with dyed hair and groomed eyebrows he is disrespecting society."
The paper said Ali-Abadi appeared to be particularly worried about footballers, and warned that "even though they get away with it now, they will be disqualified in future".
We should start a pool on how many soccer players defect
You forgot to add "......to San Francisco."
July 2005
David Beckham spent the weekend in Chicago playing exhibition games at Soldier Field but the biggest exhibition was apparently that of his shaved bare armpits, which he flashed to a horrified crowd.
Looks like he might have to "inspect" these effeminate players himself.
I actually agree with the Iranians about something!
Footballers who go in with a bomb belt strapped to themselves are much more manly!
Proof that the broken clock is right twice a day; sportsmen should look like men not metrosexual male fashion models so can't say I disagree with the islamonazis on this one.
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