well done the boys, bring on Italy...
a little aside from the SMH, lol
Australia would appear to be muscling in on the All Whites' historic draw against Slovakia at the football World Cup this morning.
The All Whites result, a couple of days after the "Shockeroos" lost 4-0 to Germany, was trumpeted as "Australasia 1, Slovakia 1: Kiwis get the point" in a Sydney Morning Herald column today.
John Huxley described the occasion as a "dire match, played in a half-empty bitter-cold Platinum City.''
Huxley conceded that Socceroo supporters needed no reminding that, temporarily at least, their team are struggling and quoted one Aussie fan at the World Cup disgruntled at the prospect of being upstaged by the Kiwis at the greatest game on turf.
''As if we didn't have enough to worry about, we're going to have the bloody Kiwis climbing into our faces,'' Luke Williamson said. He admitted, the two groups of supporters would probably be joined in some temporary alliance to take on the world.
Another SMH columnist, Michael Cockerill, couldn't help but draw comparisons with the Socceroos.
"The Socceroos rolled up their tent against the Germans, but the All Whites refused to lay down against the Slovaks. A huge gulf in quality in terms of the opposition, granted. But there is a moral to this story. Don't get caught up in the hype,'' Cockerill said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/fifa-w...17888/Aussies-struggle-with-All-Whites-result
