Like many of my Australian compatriot, this morning, I am a sombre man…
Our beloved and brave Socceroos got beaten (robbed if you are from down under) once again by dumb-ass refereeing decision in our clash with the Italian. We exited in possibly the cruelest fashion you could imagine.
We were the underdog, so it was no big deal to lose if we played well. We would have walked away tall and proud for making this far in our first Round 16 appearance…..
But….boy, did we played well, that is exceptionally well. We manage to hold off and match up with the mighty Italian team for the entire 1st half and dominated the second half when the Italian was reduced to 10 men.
By the 82th minute, we were no longer the underdog, we were on path to cause a major upset…and tragedy striked…the freaking ref handed a penalty to the Italian in the dying 30 secs. Replay clearly showed it was a wrong decision and the rest was history…
Anyhow, we are still very proud of our boys and it will be one hell of a city parade when they returned.
BTY I want to kill some Spanish referees right now