If anyone didn't catch yesterday's result, Australia won over Japan 3-1. Japan was leading one nil with five minutes to go of regulation time, and then their defence fell to pieces. Am kind of glad I missed the commercial news bulletins, getting home at about 7pm this week, because apparently it was one whole love fest saying how great it was to beat Japan and that the reaction seemed as if they had actually lifted the World Cup, let alone just the first game of the group stage.
Next up is Brazil on Friday, who are having their first game against Croatia later this morning.
I don't mind football in Australia, really I don't - I just have an intense dislike for the current executive John O'Neill, pompous looking and sounding git. This of course being the guy, when heading the Australian Rugby Union, who pulled the rug from under New Zealand at the 2003 World Cup, rugby one this time, and then supported Japan for the 2011 edition. Or was O'Neill already at the soccer board then? Anyways, it's not important, he was a git in rugby circles.
Since coming across to soccer, or football as it has been renamed here in Oz, with the Socceroos still as the national team, hmm, O'Neill has sold out the rights to Australian internationals and club matches to Foxtel, the main subscription television group here, after all the blood sweat and tears of '32 years of hurt' - to take an Englishism - of being a minority sport.
SBS must be pissed off with losing out in the bidding war - and, I'm sorry, but the A-League isn't La Liga or the Premier League, who will watch it on pay TV? It just feels a bit like the stupidity of the English cricket board selling their rights to BSkyB, money before the fans...
In the game behind me, Togo of all teams are leading South Korea one nil after half time - Togo of course having almost gone on strike to get money out of their football federation, going through three coaches in two days, before coming back to their original coach - and of course all the drama between qualification and arriving in Deutschland, they had a shocker of African Nations Cup...
Later taters
Pauly
Next up is Brazil on Friday, who are having their first game against Croatia later this morning.
I don't mind football in Australia, really I don't - I just have an intense dislike for the current executive John O'Neill, pompous looking and sounding git. This of course being the guy, when heading the Australian Rugby Union, who pulled the rug from under New Zealand at the 2003 World Cup, rugby one this time, and then supported Japan for the 2011 edition. Or was O'Neill already at the soccer board then? Anyways, it's not important, he was a git in rugby circles.
Since coming across to soccer, or football as it has been renamed here in Oz, with the Socceroos still as the national team, hmm, O'Neill has sold out the rights to Australian internationals and club matches to Foxtel, the main subscription television group here, after all the blood sweat and tears of '32 years of hurt' - to take an Englishism - of being a minority sport.
SBS must be pissed off with losing out in the bidding war - and, I'm sorry, but the A-League isn't La Liga or the Premier League, who will watch it on pay TV? It just feels a bit like the stupidity of the English cricket board selling their rights to BSkyB, money before the fans...
In the game behind me, Togo of all teams are leading South Korea one nil after half time - Togo of course having almost gone on strike to get money out of their football federation, going through three coaches in two days, before coming back to their original coach - and of course all the drama between qualification and arriving in Deutschland, they had a shocker of African Nations Cup...
Later taters
Pauly
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