If ever we had a chance this is it.....COME ON!!!!!!!
Utter f#cken bullsh!t.....nice work ref. I hate soccer, one **** decision by some moron can cost a country so much!!!
That last tackle in the goal box......... Very very unfortunate!! The ref should have let it go. 5 secs left.... Extra time was needed as the Aussie's were the better team on the pitch and they didnt deserve to lose like that.
Oh my god I am so sorry for you guys. Fantastic game and you have been fighting like hell. I`m very sad and we will miss you. I always loved to see you playing, running, fighting you never gave up......damn in the very last second. YOU are the morally winner! Best Wolfgang ....you can leave the battle field a.k.a. world cup very proud!
Obviously Lucas Neill has Jedi powers and used the force to pull down Grosso. Garbage like this puts me off from watching this clowny event called the Fifa World Cup. Acting auditons and ludicrous officiating defines this sport. Oh well, that's it for me! Even non-AUS fans agree that was a bullsh*t call. Why couldn't he let the game go? That was not a foul by any means. Kudos to Niell for taking it in stride and not tearing the brains out of that ref's skull - I surely would have.
Australia did not deserve to loose on yet another bad penalty call...reffering has being terrible the whole tournament. Well done guys your team did Australia proud.
The Italian player feigned obstruction by deliberately falling! over the Aussie defender when he could have easily got around him. The ref was right there I mean what the F--kl are these ref's smoking!!!!arrhhhhhh. Its a disgrace and FIFA need to do something about the appalling reffereing NOW.
To be honest, i am not sure about the penalty: it seemed like Grosso was "looking for" the penalty kick...
Close game but not a way to end the game, Australia couldnt break the Italian defence and when they did have a chance on goal they squandered their chances. Italy on the other hand were unlucky not to score early on. Schwarzer is just a freak in goal he went the wrong way and yet he still was able to stop the ball. In the end he did bring him down, dive or no dive, Neill shouldn't of lunged at him like that. Anyway the Gold medalists for dives are South American teams, did we forget the Uragay or Brazilian matches already?
He was.. Watch the replay, you will see that Niell did not trip him at all. Instead, it looks as if Grosso faked the losing balance act and falling over - all on his own. Either way what's done is done. AUS played a great game, unfortunatley the same cannot be said for ITA. But the main issiue is, that was a terrible way to end that game. Both teams were still lunging for that goal and that was a dispicable way to finish it.
Yeah, that is soo accurate Opinion Dont u remember the last world cup, when that idiot got hit in the leg and he went and grabbed his face ?? Anyway diving is part of the sport, FIFA wont do anything about it and Neill shouldnt of tackled him in the box with 20sec to go. If it was the other end, the Socceroos would of done exactly the same thing.
Yeah, I don't mind losing fair and square but if that was a valid penalty then Ferraris are a 4 cyl HOS. I take my hat off to the lads, they have done extremely well and I empathise how they feel with such an ending. Oh well, as the French say...ces't la vie!
australia didnt lose, the ref lost it, has anyone asked how much money Mr. Bruscelloni is paying him. Like please blind freddy could see it was a dive and the hand ball at the opposite end, i look at it that FIFA want fair play for the teams that bring in the TV ratings, anyone ever considered why in the past 30 years no even slight ranked outsider has ever got up!
My mate said exactly the same thing straight after the game. The scumbag ref could have let it go into extra time. There was 5secs left. Australia would have taken them in extra time i reckon....1-Nil. Now its f*cked!
All the annual Socceroo fans can stop supporting them for atleast another 2yrs now. Everyone should stop pretending like the ref has replay glasses, he doesnt. If you play it on normal speed its too hard to call it a dive. The superslow replay shows otherwise. If it was down the other end of the park, a Socceroo would of dived as well.... Its part of the game, its history, its just hard to loose in the last minute.
