Iran censors soccer match over 100 times due to woman referee

My Stealthy Freedom, a group that campaigns against discriminatory gender laws within Iran, wrote: 'The television censors were rattled by the presence of a female referee in shorts.

'Their solution was to cut away from the action to views of London's backstreets, which made a mockery of the game.

'At the end of the game, one of the commentators joked that he hoped the viewers enjoyed the geographic show.