I was just discussing with Rafa The Gaffer the state of the Australian game. The A-League is better than this old NSL shit but it is still rubbish. The recently sacked (aaaaaaaahahahaha) Branko Cullina (if I got that spelling wrong I don't care, he doesn't get or deserve my respect) not so long ago called Sydney FC the "Manchester United of Australian football." Who the fuck does Cullina think he, or for that matter, Sydney FC is/are? Manchester United are a club filled with a mighty tradition of winning and doing it in style. Winning the inaugural A-League doesn't constitute such a tradition. I wish more people in Australia would understand the state of the game here is nowhere near what it could and probably should be. It is no secret Aussies tend to get good at sport when we try, we are born winners I suppose. The technique of most Australian footballers (myself very much included here) is absolute toss. This needs to be addressed and quickly.
Staying with this theme, what about the World Cup 2006 and Australia's supposed acrimonious circumstances of elimination. How is this for acrimonious? Public enemy number 1 in football, Materazzi, being sent off for what was at worse a yellow card. Italy playing from around the 50th minute onwards, wrongfully, with 10 men. Now for Grosso's "dive." I still to this day, as an Australian, maintain that it WAS a penalty. The exceedingly arrogant Lucas Neill slid in the box, missed the ball, clipped Grosso and he did what any other person would, go down. Italy won. Italy won the World Cup. Grosso is a genius. Mr Grosso also took down Mr Neill a peg or two which was excellent. Lucas Neill now, at West Ham, thinks he should have wages on parity with Freddie Ljundberg. HAHAHAHAHA. Surely this is bullshit. Freddie has won so much and is classy, two things Lucas cannot lay claim to.
This rant is over simply because I am so damn tired and want to go to bed. Have a good one all, Tim Cahill will be feeling the wrath of my blog sometime soon. He isn't missing out.
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