Iraq 3 Australia 1. Well done Iraq, you deserved to win.
Football isn't cricket or rugby league. In football there are no easy games in international tournaments. Anyone who'd been watching the game for a while, as opposed to joining the bandwagon at the last world cup, would know that.
There's an attitude that because our very expensive cricket team flogs much cheaper outfits from poorer countries, our football team must do likewise. Not going to happen. Football is a game of heart and passion. You can't buy that. The Iraqi goal keeper, Nour Hassan, was quoted as saying how arrogant our team were and how they didn't respect their opponents and paid the price.
This attitude was evident in our build up to the tournament. Mark Viduka hemmed and hawed about whether he'd deign to show up for the tournament. Instead of being told to rack off and come back when he'd learned a bit of humility, they made him captain. Lucas Neill, a loyal servant of the Australian cause and captain in the world cup was just dumped.
Instead of promoting the hungry A-League players that had served him so well, Arnold used them for their commitment and desire to get Australia to the tournament and then picked a bunch of perfumed princes to show up and take over. I don't know why he did it. He was going to be sacked if he won the bloody thing anyway and the World Game (the SBS show that actually picks the team) were going to crap on him regardless, so why not reward the players who were loyal? Well Arnold's career is pretty much in tatters and Australia are practically out of the tournament.
If I were Arnold this is the team I'd play, seeing as how the actual squad he selected is filled with rubbish players it's the best I could do.
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Not a bad team. But Kisnorbo is too slow and was caught out badly against Iraq. He has to go - as does Arnold. and for that matter his deputy, Kosmina, who matches Arnold for lack of tacitical nous, and is a twat to go with it.
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