Goodbye Cruel World
Oh the pain, the pain! Not only did the Aussies match it with the Italians, but it looked like we might actually win the game after Italian defended Marco Materazzi was red carded not long after the half-time break. But a poor refereeing decision a few seconds from the end has cruelly ended Australia’s World Cup.
From here on…go Ghana!
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
June 26th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Oy! The officiating has been horrible this year. The Russian Ref for the Netherlands/Portugal game had bad calls, missed things and couldn’t even keep up at times. (I saw that game, not Italy/Australia.)
Sorry that Australia lost and at the cost of human error.
I agree - - go Ghana!
June 26th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
That’s very unfair. As we all know italians are expert in buying matches and bribing referees.
Anyway Argentina is winning this world cup so don’t worry.
June 27th, 2006 at 9:35 am
Went to see the match at the irish pub with a bunch of Italian friends… They weren’t happy that I was wearing my Australian flag shirt, but at the end of the match all the happy Italians did come over to say the Aussie team had played very well …
June 27th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Too bad that Ghana didn’t win either.
June 29th, 2006 at 7:42 am
“From here on…go Ghana!”
I missed this one, it seems.
Poor choice. But could be excused in the circumstances.
June 29th, 2006 at 7:44 am
Oh, and compliments about that picture. Nice gal, I have even thought she is a Brazilian for a moment