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Edition
The Padideh Gazette
24 May 2027
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 May 2027
Mohammad Reza Bordbar 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 Padideh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
Padideh count the cost of losing Saman Dejagah
32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad24 May 2027
Padideh lose Mohammad Yazdani
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Squad Omid Hosseini asks for a word with the manager