An article from France’s RMC caught our eye on Monday, largely because it’s absolutely bizarre. RMC have been looking at abuse being sent the way of Dmitri Payet for his challenge on Cristiano Ronaldo.
It’s confused RMC, who have assumed Ronaldo must have a particulary big following in the country. There are many fanatic football fans in Iran, and it seems they get quite upset when one of their favourites is injured.
We had our own look and, right enough, there’s a small army of Iranian football fans saying quite nasty things to the West Ham United star.
Some Iranians have even tried to apologise for the behaviour of their compatriots, such is the abuse being dished out from Iran.
At least Payet can cross one country off his summer holiday list.
