It is hard not to admire the courage of Saman Ghoddos, the Premier League ’s only Iranian, as he explains why there is an obligation to use this World Cup as a platform to demand change.
Team Melli, who face England on Monday, have arrived in Qatar despite calls for FIFA to boot Iran out of the tournament.
In part because the country’s autocratic regime is supplying Russia with arms. But also because their homeland is in the middle of an uprising that has claimed more than 300 lives and seen the government vote in favour of sentencing thousands of protestors to death.
