Tadanari Lee

A sweet volley and a sour taste

A beautiful piece of wing play, a pinpoint cross and a sumptuously-struck volley from Tadanari Lee won the Asian Cup for Japan against Australia but the story off the pitch in Doha painted an uglier picture.

With Qatar attempting to prove that it has the ability to host football's World Cup in 2022, thousands of fans were confronted by riot police and barred from entering the Khalifa Stadium up to an hour before Saturday's kickoff.

The official line is that 700 ticket-holders were denied access when 3,000 people showed up hoping to pay on the turnstiles.