FOOTBALLERS demanded that Fifa end “gender apartheid” in Iran today after an Iranian female fan died after setting herself on fire because she had been sentenced to six months in jail for trying to enter a football stadium.

Thirty-year-old woman Sahar Khodayari died at a Tehran hospital on Monday following last week’s tragic incident, which reportedly occurred after she heard that she could go to prison for trying to enter a stadium in March to watch an Esteghlal match. 

She was pretending to be a man, wearing a blue hairpiece and a long overcoat, when the police stopped her.