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9 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Gostaresh Foulad

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

14 days out for a squad player after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gostaresh Foulad will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Gostaresh Foulad

Position 14 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Player ratings

Amir Karimi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Gostaresh Foulad

Hossein Saki and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Zob Ahan take the points off Gostaresh Foulad

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Reza Sharifi Basir falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Ali Azmoun to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Morteza Hosseini is still paying for one afternoon at Gostaresh Foulad

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mehdi Torabi keeps Gostaresh Foulad in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

No end in sight to Gostaresh Foulad's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gostaresh Foulad has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Karim Beiranvand scores twice — 9.27

Two goals and a mark of 9.27 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

a squad player breaks a bone — 21 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Ashkan Cheshmi, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.64

A mark of 8.64 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Karim Beiranvand in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gostaresh Foulad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Karim Beiranvand’s goal not enough for Gostaresh Foulad

Karim Beiranvand scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑4 to Saba, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Gostaresh Foulad and Saba in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Masoud Gholizadeh is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

In brief

7 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Kaveh Karimi out for 19 days

19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gostaresh Foulad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

A hiding for Gostaresh Foulad

Beaten 0‑3 by Malavan, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

8 matches without a win for Gostaresh Foulad

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Gostaresh Foulad are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A fracture rules a squad player out for 29 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gostaresh Foulad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Saman Khodadad’s move to Saba falls through

The deal that would have taken Saman Khodadad to Saba has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Gostaresh Foulad with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

A row about effort at Gostaresh Foulad

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vahid Hosseini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mehdi Torabi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mehdi Torabi, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Gostaresh Foulad

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Ali Azmoun left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief