Non-League Paper

MY BROMANCE WITH IRANIANS

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
16 August 2020

POLITICAL FOOTBALL: Iran’s World Cup win over the US at France 98 was celebrated wildly in Tehran

IN 1998 I was lucky enough to go to the World Cup in France. Nick Hancock and I made a comedy documentary called The Outsiders (available on You Tube).
lable on You Tube). It was an amazing summer bromance, not with Nick, who I’d known for years, but with a bunch of lads from Iran. We trained with them, played pool with them and laughed a lot with them.
here was: Azizi, whose nickname was Suzuki, because he was so loud, Abedzadeh, the goalkeeper, and leader of the team, Mohammadk...

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