Australia 3-1 Japan

Why can’t trolls ever spell properly? It really drives me bananas. Sigh…

Posted from  Australia

Kent, the UK gives opportunities to players from all over the world. They do not have the potential in their own country they come to Europe and we make them great! Australia on the other hand have other sporting priorites, they are passionate about AFL,Rugby,Cricket,Tennis and somewhere down the line is football. Watch the FRIENDLY match bewtween Aus. v Holland and tell me they don’t play dirty. The Japanese are as passionate if not more than the Europeans about Football. They have some excellent players, who play in Europe. My gripe is I didn’t support either team but watched what I hoped was a good and fair game. To be quite honest I was disgusted, the Auusie intentionally went for the legs not even attempting to go for the ball, I think 4 yellow cards proved that. I think they are crowing far too much and it will be interesting to see the comments when they get smashed by Brazil and Croatia. You make a lot of enemies on the way up but don’t forget Ausies you meet them again on the way down.

Posted from  Japan

OOO Diane sounds like you are afraid the Aussies are coming.
Because we tend to dominate any sport we get involved in I understand how badly you must want to exclude us from this particular party, too bad you will never get rid of us now….hee, hee, and we can only get better and better.

Posted from  Australia

Kes wrong opinion, I loved my time in Australia and yes like the Americans Australians seem to exceed at the majority of sports. However they do it fairly and honourably, it is my opinion that they played dirty in football. The were told after the friendly with Holland about dirty tactics. Yes maybe they can go through to the next round but is it worth it if you resort to dirty play. There can be no pleasure in winning by those standards the win means nothing and they Aussies get a bad reputation. The Japanese are very honourably people I know I have lived here for 7 yrs, doesn’t mean I support them but they are passionaate about the sport and play well and fair. So maybe you should think about sticking to the sports your good at and don’t bring down football

Posted from  Japan

My gripe is overseas people always include “rugby” in the list of sports Aussies care about more than soccer. Rugby *league* yes in certain areas, but “rugby”=rugby union which has a very narrow base of support and has the most to lose from surging popularity for football. Ratings for the A League matched the Super 14s in its first season. After the proven success there and increasing quality, next season I predict it will pass the yawnion in popularity. Attendance will grow too. Yawnion had its chance with the last world cup here and plenty of people jumped on the bandwagon who then immediately then went back to not caring. The job for the FFA is to ensure we hang on to more of the instant fanatics. These other sports — tennis, swimming etc — are very popular at serious international level but not week in, week out to be passionate about.

Rugby league in NSW/QLD (Go Knights!) and AFL elsewhere are the dominant codes, sure. After that though, football/soccer surely has the best claim on widespread popularity — and that can only grow.

Posted from  Australia

Im just glad dianas out of australia. The aussies play tough but fair.
What we dont need in football is English Hoolingan Idiots. Why dont you spend time talking about that than bagging the aussies.
We Won, suck it up! move on!

Posted from  Australia

Hey Amanda you made some excellent points there and most of it I agree with. However as a nation of approx. 19million people in a country where the UK could fit inside 33.3 times. You have to look at the logistics. If you take the percentage that are male (hey girls I’m not being sexist) and ask yourself how many out of that percentage would have the ability to play professional football/soccer. Most schools don’t even play it they encourage the children in AFL (Go Cats). Surely, and only my opinion ascertained from the Aussie support on this site, if you want it to continue to be a National sport a few more fans should get up and have a positive say to the Aussie Sports federation or whoever it is down there. There are some true fans in Australia who are passionate about the game however unless the Australian team do exceptionally well, play fairly and maybe by the skin of their teeth get through to the next round, it will all be forgotten about until the next world qualifier. There is nothing better than going weekly to support your team. Can you imagine if Perth Glory played in Melbourne their fans would either have a 5hor flight to support them or what a 5 day drive, won’t happen.

Posted from  Japan

Boca, please don’t lower the tone by becoming personal! If you don’t have anything constructive to say don’t comment. Whether I am in Australia or any other place in the world doesn’t matter. This is about football and peoples opinions.

Posted from  Japan

Lower the tone? C’mon Diane, now you’re just being silly. Have you read your own comments?

“get a life”
“AFL hooligans”
“dirty dirty ha ha”
“bloody mince you guys”

Charming! I’m all for intelligent, well-written, rational or constructive criticism but those comments hardly qualify. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous of you, to say the least, and a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

If you wanted to start a decent conversation that would have been so easy! You could have said “I was disappointed by the physical style of play against Holland”. Then others could have pointed out various factors; the obvious gamesmanship involved, the disappointment felt by a team ranked 3 in drawing with a team ranked 42, the positive comments made by Van Basten about Australia, the fact that both Sneijder and Cocu injured themselves by colliding with Australian players. Or talked about the 3 yellow cards for Japan versus 4 for Australia in Game 1, the role of the media in potentially influencing referees, the shirt pulling and diving styles favoured by some other teams…

But you chose to post a couple of poorly written, rather obnoxious digs instead… and then complained when people found then annoying!

Give me a break. I wish people would start thinking before they post because trawling through the insults and text-speak grammar is getting tiresome.

Posted from  Australia

Ok Matilda get your point, apologies if you found my comments offensive, perhaps my expressive comments where not to your liking. However there is freedom of speech and I am sure after England play tonight there will be many comments from Australia. However as you have brought up the subject of officals I have to make the following comments. Somebody has to do the job, difficult watching 22 players on the pitch, and we all think we can do mutch better job than they can, so back off there, we all want someone to blame but the officials job is the hardest of them all, don’t forget their only human and I am sure you as well as I have made mistakes under moments of pressure. They should be applauded.

Posted from  Japan

Sorry that should have been much better

Posted from  Japan

Diane, that great football nation called England that you keep talking about, do you happen to remember the score the last time they played Australia? It’s at the back of my mind and I just can’t seem to remember it but thought you would be able to help out. I mean it would obviously have been a thashing to the brits considering how much money the spend on their football but across a number of sportsI would like to know the exact score.

And yes we do have numerous sports in this country that get more focus, but it still shows the Aussie spirit with which we’ve all come together to support our national team. After all, considering our population size and our sporting achievments across numerous sports, we would have to be one of, if not the, number 1 sporting countries in the world.

Posted from  Australia

Few grammar fixes which my computer decided to spit out.

Diane, that great football nation called England that you keep talking
about, do you happen to remember the score the last time they played
Australia? It’s at the back of my mind and I just can’t seem to remember
it but thought you would be able to help me out. I mean it would obviously
have been a thrashing to the brits considering how much money they spend
on their football but I would like to know the
exact score.

And yes we do have numerous sports in this country that get more focus,
but it still shows the Aussie spirit with which we’ve all come together
to support our national team. After all, considering our population size
and our sporting achievments across numerous sports, we would have to be
one of, if not the, number 1 sporting countries in the world.

Posted from  Australia

diane is really getting on my nerves, i wish she would just accept the fact that the teams that went in as the underdogs of the competion, during their first round gams did so much better than anyone would have expected, yall chack out Trinidad and tobago vs. Sweden, 0-0 and Australia vs. Japan 3-1……these teams are just to name a few, that were not expected to a thing at all, and about the hard but fair game that Australia play, be reasonable the only reason to why yall are omplaing is because you lost, and the Netherland game was not rough at all! soon we will be saying the reason to why australians are good at swimming is cos we psych the other competitors out with mental telepathy!! please get over your ego’s and just enjoy the rest of this great tournament!!!!

peace out yall

Posted from  Australia

Gosh I didn’t realise you Aussies were so sensitive and temperamental, if you can’t take it I suppose I had better back off before your cry lol
luv ya guys really

Posted from  Japan

naa we just hate pathetic liars and bs artists thats all diane, but we luv u really

Posted from  Australia

I agree with Diane on the unfair play style of Australian team.
If Tim Cahill did get another yellow card, he would’ve let out of the game, which means, you would’ve been playing with just 10 players. (and he was the one who scored, too.) And during the whole game it was a rush of leg-attacking play…

Why so many Australians slag off the British and Americans anyway? They could be painful sometimes, but that’s just too ugly.
Why don’t you do something for yourselves before you criticise others?

Well, good luck with the next World Cup without Hiddink.

Posted from  Japan

You write like a male, Diane, you are a guy, and you haven’t got the balls to admit it - hmmm - maybe that’s why you have given yourself a female name. You are just a stirrer. I refuse to take your inane comments seriously because you have proven you don’t know the first thing about football, tactics, players and the World Cup event.

Posted from  Australia

And for you Genin Goshu, the ifs, buts and maybes can make a primary school football team world champions. Face the facts, don’t give us if this, if that, if this and that. That’s for dreamers.

Posted from  Australia

Enzo, sorry but I am female, maybe not called Diane but thats for a reason. I have a daughter who is a doctor in the UK and a son who is a footballer, I have lived football since he was 2 and could walk and kick a ball. School, club, county,schoolboys and 1st division juniors and now in his element, anyway must dash think he might have a game tonight. Enjoy the world cup

Posted from  Japan

Wow, this thread sure attracts some crazy people!

GG; The Japanese players didn’t complain about the Australian style of play after the game. They know they played poorly towards the end and didn’t try to blame anyone but themselves. It’s a shame some of the fans can’t be as honourable about this loss as their players.

I understand being unhappy about losing 3-1 but the charge of overly physical play simply isn’t supported by facts. There were no injuries and no red cards. Japan got 3 yellows and Australia 4.

By the way, the FIFA Referees spokesman made a public statement about Japan’s goal. Yes it was a clear foul and Essam Abd El Fatah said he simply couldn’t see the interference from where he was. An honest mistake but we’re lucky it didn’t cost us 3 points.

If there were no referring errors then Japan wouldn’t have scored at all and Cahill might have been sent off after his first goal. The score still would have been 2-0 to Australia, rather than 3-1. Or if you think 10 men means Aloisi wouldn’t have scored too, it would have been 1-0 to Australia. But these are pointless attempts to re-write history…

Concentrate on getting a result against Croatia. Australians would love to see Japan do well because it would actually help us!

Good luck.

Posted from  Australia

well said

Posted from  Australia

Yea who cares bout idiots who know nothing about soccer. Go the SOCCEROOS!!!, here’s a video of the celebrations in Federation Square,Melbourne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29zIY74t1Ug&search=Socceroos

Posted from  Australia

Talk about one-eyed. Japan’s coach Zico is in the depths of misery after hearing that a top FIFA official said Japan should have been awarded a penalty in the second half of their 3-1 defeat to Australia, “why are they saying this now when nothing can be changed? If we had been given that penalty it could have changed the face of the game.” Either Zico must suffer from short-term memory loss, or he is only interested in incidents that affected his team. What about the goal by Japan that shouldn’t have been a goal. Even the referee admitted his mistake with this one. So let’s be fair here. Japan’s first goal should have been disallowed but they deserved a penalty, and if they converted the penalty the final score, and events continued as they did, the final score would still be 3-1 to Australia.

Posted from  Australia

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Posted from  United States