okay, my childish windups aside, this is f**king rubbish. australia is still as modest as it was four years ago in football, but when it comes to you kiwis talking us down and yourselves up after a half arsed friendly match, we willl (or at least I will) patronise. the sh*t talked in here about your own chances in your group match the sh*t i've been talking in here today. the reality is you scraped past
bahrain to qualify, and only qualified after oceania was rewarded for Australia's efforts.
we had to work twice as hard to qualify in '06 and '10, and you'll soon learn that the WC isn't as easy as a friendly game against an uninspired socceroos side or a 2 legger against Bahrain.
ATB
Thanks for giving us a great example of the type of patronising attitude I'm talking about. Quite simply there is no way we would have heard anything like this before 2006.
4 years ago Australia hadn't been to a world cup in 28 years. Now you suddenly feel qualified to (a) tell your opposition that matches you clearly competed in don't matter (b) downplay other sides qualification efforts (c) speak from a position of "experience" as to how tough a world Cup is.
Why do I feel qualified to speak on this topic/ Because I am half australian, my father is an aussie football tragic who was crying like a child when Australia qualified in 2006 and is embarassed when I tell him some of the rubbish that is spoken by Australian football fans.
Perhaps you should think back to before the 2007 Asian Cup and what was being written in the Aussie media before you go spouting off about how much of a world force australia is now.
Aussie football has made great strides in the last 8 years off the back of a very talented group of players. Don't assume that's how it will always be, because there are no Kewells, Vidukas, Cahills or Neills coming through
james dean2010-05-26 21:45:59