superman321 wrote:Do we think Aus. would be in the final if not for that bullshit penalty, well no. Does it still make us angry that we were put out due to a guy performing a bit of dodgy acting and taking a dive, well obviously. Italy may be able to play some good soccer, but it would recieve more respect if it didn't fake injuries to get an easy goal or two.
Exactly.
The fact is though that we ran rings round Italy for 95.9 minutes of our match, so, it would be a fair possibility that if Italy could then go on to play well enough to get to the final, we could have done it too.
Of course we'd have to work on our acting a bit first
Personally I'll be cheering for France, it would just be the final insult if the team that faked us out of the World Cup went on to win it....
