The Official Metpage Fifa World Cup 2006 Topic

[Thierry]

yeah... Too good isn't he? :-/

Take Heitinga with them

Hehe you can have him, together with Van der Vaart and Sneijder.

[metmum]

Brazil are already taking about beating England, I though they still had to play Ghana yet. I hope they win, I hate it when teams assume there going to win. Portugal - England will be a good match though. Portugal normally beat us though, as England have a way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

[Fadingtoblack]

Not a bad game so far for us at half time. 0-0, and thankfully we've avoided conceding early in the game, which has seemed to be our worst problem so far.

Looking forward to the second half, I think we have a chance!

[sacha]

I support Italy, it will be a great second half

Good luck Fading to Black

[sanitarium180]

Damn, that wasnt a straight Red for Materazzi

[Fadingtoblack]

Wow, I can't believe that. A great game, but we really didn't deserve that

[Leighton]

LOL! Unbelievable. FIFA didn't even try to cover up the fix in the end.

[Neorrr]

Italy as always...no penalty, but what does fifa has to do with that? the spanish referee made a mistake but don't look for conspirations or shit like that...im sorry for the socceroos i was totally with them...

[Bleeding Me]

Well, we were fucked over in every single game by the refs. So it was only fitting that in the last 10 sec we were outed by the worst decision yet.

Soccer is not that popular here, but it was starting to gain some momentum. Soccer Australia will be seething that it ended in this way, because there will be a backlash and the public will not want to support a game that is obviously rife with corruption and bad officiating. It wouldn't suprise me if the Brazil team lined up for BJ's from the ref after the match against us last week.

[Leighton]

FIFA never wanted Australia at the World Cup, mate. Check out our route to the thing. THey throw hurdle after hurdle at us and when we finally made it they threw refs at us. All it took was for one Italian to get into the box in the second half and the game was going to be over.

Looking back at Otto's post of the Viduka take down against Croatia makes me laugh even harder at the fix.