The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Match26 Dec 2026
4 matches without a win for Gostaresh Foulad
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Gostaresh Foulad are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Gostaresh Foulad
Ali Pouraliganji and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Gostaresh Foulad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majid Karimi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match26 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Gostaresh Foulad against Esteghlal
0‑1 to Esteghlal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Shahriar Cheshmi is slowing down
At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
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 0‑1 Amir Jahanbakhsh left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Mohammad Hosseini beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Falah Daram
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Majid Karimi has to sit this one out
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Gostaresh Foulad lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
In brief
- The dugout A promise honoured for Falah Daram
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Saman Mohammadi
- Market The Majid Hajsafi question follows Gostaresh Foulad around