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Marked for Sardar Vafaei

31 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Mar 2027

Sergio Casais wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Siah Jamegan know it.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Ramin Noorafkan 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 Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Mar 2027

A last season at home is what Sergio Casais is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 Feb 2027

Ashkan Karimi damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Mohsen Forouzan says Siah Jamegan went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Aref Gholami 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Siah Jamegan

Mohammad Reza Bordbar was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match30 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Siah Jamegan against Saipa

0‑1 to Saipa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The terraces1 Feb 2027

The spotlight tightens on Ramin Noorafkan

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

Ali Shojaei runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

An afternoon Vouria Ghoddos will want back

Marked 5.45. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

Alireza Rezaeian could not find anything

5.49. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

16 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

Alireza Dejagah breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match14 Nov 2026

9 unbeaten for Siah Jamegan

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Siah Jamegan did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Amir Gholizadeh goes up and wins it — 7.92

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.92 for the rest of it.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Sardar Vafaei says Siah Jamegan went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Siah Jamegan

Ramin Noorafkan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hossein Hajsafi 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Oct 2026

Alireza Dejagah breaks a bone — 95 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Both jobs done by Vouria Vafaei — 7.29

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 30 actions, 7.29, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Match3 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Siah Jamegan

7 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Siah Jamegan

Ramin Noorafkan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ali Dejagah is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hossein Hajsafi 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Honours even between Siah Jamegan and Esteghlal Khuzestan

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market5 Oct 2026

Siah Jamegan and Mohammad Amini are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

A day to forget for Vouria Ghoddos

Marked 5.17, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

3 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Aug 2026

Ramin Noorafkan 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 Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vouria Vafaei 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Ramin Noorafkan

“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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Esteghlal Khuzestan join the queue for Karim Gholizadeh

Add another name to the list: Esteghlal Khuzestan have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Karim Gholizadeh. The answer from Siah Jamegan has not changed — yet.

Match15 Aug 2026

Vouria Vafaei the difference as Siah Jamegan beat Gostaresh Foulad

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vouria Vafaei. 1‑0 against Gostaresh Foulad, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market17 Aug 2026

Siah Jamegan and Hossein Hajsafi are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Vouria Vafaei stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.78 on the card, and the Siah Jamegan support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Amir Hosseini

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Sardar Vafaei dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief