World Cup!

[Jetdat]

dont count on it... touch one of the movie stars and they'll drop to the floor like they've been shot at close range

haha..

how true is that...

[Jetdat]

we(the aussies that is)played well...very proud of the way we play unlike the typical boring defensive game the italians display and are renowned for..

i dont think italy will win the cup, given that they cant even put away a mediocre team like us convincingly, and i hope they get owned by a real super team of the world.

[CNR33]

we(the aussies that is)played well...very proud of the way we play unlike the typical boring defensive game the italians display and are renowned for..

i dont think italy will win the cup, given that they cant even put away a mediocre team like us convincingly, and i hope they get owned by a real super team of the world.

italy didn't beat us, the ref did... ah well, that's all part of it i guess.

(oh while i'm on my anti-ref-rant and that red card was crap too!)

[West]

Well done Socceroos, well done.

We did well against a Monster Football team and we were still standing strong if it wasn't those stupid REFs but you can't blame them, they've got to suck up to those big Football country as they will have more chances to get invite over for more games. Not to consider the MAFIA will kill them if they don't LOL, j/k.

We've lost but we left a strong mesage to those teams, to those that once thought we weren't going to make it to the second round, that is the next time Australia come back, Australia will kick ass.

[ferni]

That was KARMA after the rugby tackle on viduka in the penalty box, and the SECOND INTENTIONAL Handball by croatia punching the ball out.

find me the .gif of Kewell's equalizer from an OFFSIDE POSITION against Croatia

[ferni]

oh...here we go

forza azzuri.

well played australia to make it that far.

italy played with 10 men for the second half, and australia failed to take advantage. thats soccer.

the commentator said "australia deserved to go through to the final 8, but instead it's italy"

sorry, but they didnt deserve to go through. if you win, you go through and thats that. its like saying qualifying for the world cup means they deserve to win it.

i expect to be flamed, but bring it on.

like i said, if that was italy Vs X team, i would be going spastic right now, but ive stayed calm because i was a lot more in the middle than if it was any other team....but at the end of the day, italy won, and they deserve to go through.

if australia had gotten a penalty at the end like that, the fans would be going spastic, and not a word about the referee would be said.

it might hurt, but thats how it is.

Forza Azzuri!

Theres no way you can agree that was a penalty, that should of been a red card to the italian knob that dived. The penalty should of gone to australia when italy handballed it in the penalty box, if they didn't handball it, it was going straight in the back of the net via vidukas feet.

I have some footage of Italy training before the match, check it out!

http://stuff.ferni.net/ItalianTrainingCamp.mpg

[inark]

and so begins all the excuses...

keep em coming!!

[West]

Theres no way you can agree that was a penalty, that should of been a red card to the italian knob that dived. The penalty should of gone to australia when italy handballed it in the penalty box, if they didn't handball it, it was going straight in the back of the net via vidukas feet.

I have some footage of Italy training before the match, check it out!

http://stuff.ferni.net/ItalianTrainingCamp.mpg

Typical is it? Hand ball in the penalty box. That is not football, specially for a PROFESSIONAL TEAM, what a joke.

[Jetdat]

should we be expecting another apology from another useless ref perhaps???

italy go thru to next game with a dodgy fall and a dodgy call from a dodgy ref and meanwhile four dodgy teams in seriea get investigated for match fixing...

meh...

[dezz]

and so begins all the excuses...

keep em coming!!

lol!

[inark]

Seriously tho... if u cant beat a team thats a man down... you dont deserve to progress any further.

[fuzzy_scuz]

Every Game Australia Played not only was the opposition against us but the Ref

Japan 1 Goal Allowed after Japan took out the Keeper (Aus won)

Brazil couldn't get within 1/2 a meter without a foul being called, ref joking and muking around with Brazil and telling Kewell that his World cup has ended (Aus Lost)

Crotia 2 obvious penalties not called, Vaduka tackled and an Handball (Aus Drew)

Italy Handball no penalty! Italian falls and acts gets a Penalty!

What crap score line should really be Aus 1- Italy 0

It shows not only where Australia shafted for the past 10 years with world cup qualifying but also we get shafted through the world cup. FIFA can stick it up their ASS because we got further than they wanted us to go.

Edited June 27, 2006 by fuzzy_scuz

[SLYSX]

lol!

I third that

Matterzai was given straight read for something that was a yellow. That brought Italy down to 10men at the start of the second half, they had to take off Luca Toni (there best striker and who had already tested the aussie goals 3-4times and was only a matter of time before he was going to put it in the back of the net) to bring on a defender and fill the void, they then played defensive for a good 25min where australia got no where near there goals, they were to busy fckin around in the midfield and down back. Italy saw the chance so they brought on Iquinta and Totti and went attack again and thus creating a goal. There was clearly a skill difference between the two sides, i admit australia played very well and are a good team but, they had nothing on the in close and long balls the italian team was puttting in. Austrlia had 59% to 41% of the ball in the 2nd half and 1 extra player and still didnt score.

[inark]

Every Game Australia Played not only was the opposition against us but the Ref

Japan 1 Goal Allowed after Japan took out the Keeper (Aus won)

Brazil couldn't get within 1/2 a meter without a foul being called, ref joking and muking around with Brazil and telling Kewell that his World cup has ended (Aus Lost)

Crotia 2 obvious penalties not called, Vaduka tackled and an Handball (Aus Drew)

Italy Handball no penalty! Italian falls and acts gets a Penalty!

What crap score line should really be Aus 1- Italy 0

It shows not only where Australia shafted for the past 10 years with world cup qualifying but also we get shafted through the world cup. FIFA can stick it up their ASS because we got further than they wanted us to go.

alright! Now we're getting fired up!!

keep em coming... i reckon theres still plenty of people needing to vent right now... let it out!!

my shoulder is here for you all to cry on however my ears may fall deaf.

[Kozeyekan]

alright! Now we're getting fired up!!

keep em coming... i reckon theres still plenty of people needing to vent right now... let it out!!

my shoulder is here for you all to cry on however my ears may fall deaf.

I for one am not that dissapointed Australia lost.

I am however dissapointed that we lost to a bunch of limp wristed panty waisted bunch of masculinity challenged boys of questionable manlyhood, and even more questionable sexuality.

Seriously, Soccer is a fast game, and contact happens. It's like basketball in that way, it's not a contact sport, but put enough men in a small area, all moving at speed, and bodies will bump.

You can ride the bump (like the Australians did) or you can got o water as soon as anyone touches (or comes close enough to touch) you.

It's depressing to see that the top athletes from a country so well represented in Australia's multicultural society act this way. It's further depressing to see Australia labelled 'thugs' because people are falling down all around us. (That's not a shot at Italians, or Italian Australians either, you guys are men, no doubt. But this team does not represent that)

Sadly, this will also add to the bogan element once again flying off the band wagon and labelling it a 'girls sport' because of all the agony a player seems to be in from minimal contact. I've seen netball players take a bump better.

Even worse, AFL is getting a lot of this element into it. IF AFL ever rivals what I saw last night, I'll burn down the AFL HQ.

After all that crap though, Australia should have been able to score with a 1 man advantage for 40 minutes, but hell, relaistically, we're not that great, and we went further than expected.

And I'm spent.

Go Brazil.

[inark]

Get your matches and lighter fluid out and head on down to the AFL HQ!!!

theyre just as bad if not worse...

does a written statement like thatg constitute a contractual promise? lol

[West]

I for one am not that dissapointed Australia lost.

I am however dissapointed that we lost to a bunch of limp wristed panty waisted bunch of masculinity challenged boys of questionable manlyhood, and even more questionable sexuality

LMAO!

I remembered watching Italy played against Chile a while ago, they got so desparated that they deliverately kick the ball into one of the defender hand. Everyone else somehow knew that's what Italy was going to do, they hide their hands behind their back but this poor defender forgot to do it so Italy got a SET UP penalty and won.

Everything was caught on camera just like what happened to Australia. Faked their fall, how desperate.

A team that call themself one of football greatest nations and only WON 1 GOAL to a young, newly formed team from the land of down under OVER A FAKE FALL!

Talk about can't win 10 of their men while we had 11?

Regardless they've won, congratulation. We'll see you again in 2010 in Sth Africa, watch out .

Also if there were an AFL Football world cup, we'd have been a continuous defending champion lol.

[dezz]

I am however dissapointed that we lost to a bunch of limp wristed panty waisted bunch of masculinity challenged boys of questionable manlyhood, and even more questionable sexuality.

I'll post up pics of the italian players' girlfriends and wives if you put up one of your partner

Lets all resort to childish name calling...

Everything was caught on camera just like what happened to Australia. Faked their fall, how desperate.

A team that call themself one of football greatest nations and only WON 1 GOAL to a young, newly formed team from the land of down under OVER A FAKE FALL!

I see A LOT of people calling Italy out as the only nation that dives....if you're going to target the top teams, cast your thoughts back to 2002 korea/japan...or did you not see the ball hit rivaldo in the thighs, as he went down holding his face like he had just received a hook from mike tyson

its getting reeaaaaaall sad now...but keep it all coming...its highly amusing.

[Guest IH8VEE8S]

sheeesh this still going?

people at the end of the day, italy won. just accept that and get over it already.

i noticed some are talking about italian players' sexuality? lol has anyone seen Totti's girlfriend?

italian hottness at its absolute best

as for diving and all, that's football, it's a tactic used by ALL teams not just italy. please guys be a bit just a bit more open minded about the game

Edited June 27, 2006 by IH8VEE8S

[Jetdat]

how about some understanding here...

last second a dive and a dodgy call and italy go thru...i am not saying we would have won for sure if it went to extra time but italy with their tired legs and 10 men would have had less chance to win in the next 30 mins. in my opinion!!

we are all upset and emotional by the WAY we lost...and we will whinge as much as we want, if it was the other way around i am sure italians would also do the same...