We Wuz Robbed! (part deux)
Okay, for those of you who aren’t aware, Australia lost to multiple world champions, Italy by 1 goal to Nil.
Oh, and Italy got their only goal EIGHT SECONDS from the end of the game.
And, to add insult to injury, the goal was from a penalty that should never have been awarded.
Now you might think I would be unbelievably PROUD of the Australians’ effort, having been ranked at 44th in the to-win odds and I am, but crikey! how cruel was that?
The level-headed, fair dinkum folk (like my Dad) think that Italy deserved to win (although his blood runs green and gold), having had the most quality strikes at goal and they (he) might be right, but for right now, I’m holding on to the WE WUZ ROBBED sentiment until at least next week.
Now, sinking into major snarkiness mode, my father reliably informs me that the Italian team actually TRAINS at taking dives! Well smack my arse and call me Sally, fancy that! Sadly, clearly the training paid off!
Them glamour boys, with their slick hair and Armani underpants nearly had the Fiorucci rug pulled out from under their boots that’s for sure! I believe that had we made it into extra time, the folks here in Norton Street, Leichhardt would have been crying into their pasta bemoaning what could have been.
Now I love Italians, but not today.
I’m gonna get behind the Germans now, as it’s their home town, and they have put up with weeks of raucous Australians drinking their beer, shagging their women and generally running amok. It’s the least I can do.
Perhaps next week I can say that the best team won on the day. But that’s next week.
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Rhys wrote,
Yeah, quite agree. Bad luck for the Aussies, though I can’t help think that Australia could of played for another 90 days without scoring.
There’s always 4 years time :)
Link | June 27th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
JimInCanada wrote,
ROBBED??? darlin, you were EVISCERATED!!! It always amazes me how teams like Italy and Brazil
can round around tripping players and diving so much they should play games in a swimming pool
and the refs never see it…. yet the socceroos get called for a non-trip with seconds left.
A lot of people here in Canada were pulling for them because they play the game the way it SHOULD be played
and to go out on a bullshit call like that is just plain wrong.
The call should be reviewed,the game should be replayed and the ref should be suspended..
and investigated to see if he recently received a large bank deposit in Italian funds.
You played great footie, Socceroos!!! Good on Ya!!!!
Link | June 27th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Pezza wrote,
You’re right, to cooler heads it’s quite obvious we weren’t “robbed”, but still it’s a disgusting way to go out of the World Cup.
Italy shouldn’t have got that red card, but nor should they have got the penalty. We were playing hard, attacking football and they were ironclad in defence, but had nobody forward (due in part to being a man down, of course), but looked extremely threatening in the few times they did manage a counterattack.
Maybe Italy should have won, and they probably would have, but the Socceroos didn’t deserve to lose in that fashion. All it does is put the cherry on the black forest cake (ha! german cake, I’m so clever) of poor refereeing we’ve had to put up with over the last two weeks or so.
I’d like to imagine FIFA have a good hard look at their own performance after the world cup, but that’s just not going to happen. Brazil will probably win, the status quo will be maintained, and Australia, armed with the knowledge that we’ll never get a fair go in the world game, will take a long time to get over the result and try again.
At least we’re doing okay in the rugby again!
Link | June 28th, 2006 at 10:32 am