Good Luck Aussies

[Simmo]

All right.

I remember before the Uruguay vs Australia qualifier a post to the Sports forum from that rarest of breeds, a polite Englishman wishing us the best of luck.

Seeing as you poms haven't expressed any similar sentiment yet, I'll make the statement and you can reply with your support.

"Good luck Australia against Italy, you have impressed the world with your fighting spirit and determination. If you can play with the same heart & skill tonight I'm sure you can get the result. See you in the final."

Cheers.

Edited June 26, 2006 by Simmo

[jackr]

Seeing as you poms haven't expressed any similar sentiment yet, I'll make the statement and you can reply with your support.

"Good luck Australia against Italy, you have impressed the world with your fighting spirit and determination. If you can play with the same heart & skill tonight I'm sure you can get the result. See you in the final."

Cheers.

You should check around a few of the threads as many English posters, including myself, have wished you all the best many times. It would be nice if you could do what the Scottish are incapable of an wish England all the best ahead of their games or is it a one-way thing?

Good luck tonight btw.

[ProfessorFart]

Indeed! Come on Aus! Put the Italians to the sword. Play the way you did against Croatia and its in the bag.

[tom yum goong]

Yeah, come on the Socceroos!

I had a bet on for Oz to beat Brazil in the group stage game, which I thought they were unlucky to lose. It would be great if they could send the Italians home after a good spanking

[Pink Mist]

and equally good luck to the poms

[Simmo]

and equally good luck to the poms

England are our second team by default , no need for mentioning it.

[lampard10]

All right.

I remember before the Uruguay vs Australia qualifier a post to the Sports forum from that rarest of breeds, a polite Englishman wishing us the best of luck.

Seeing as you poms haven't expressed any similar sentiment yet, I'll make the statement and you can reply with your support.

"Good luck Australia against Italy, you have impressed the world with your fighting spirit and determination. If you can play with the same heart & skill tonight I'm sure you can get the result. See you in the final."

Cheers.

So, you completely missed me , wrapped in an Australian flag, wishing you good luck. Well if you don't look, you won't find.

[OneeyedJohn]

My pedigree is Devonian, and I can be pretty damned polite when it suits

I congratulated u after the excellent win over the nips.

And it wouldn't bother me a bit if we get to kick ur arse in the Final

[Simmo]

OK, you guys now get a pass .

As for tonights game I hope we can get an early goal to force the Italians to play some football. If they go ahead it'll turn into a diving event from Totti, Gattuso etc...

[mrbojangles]

Go on then, good luck

[ProfessorFart]

Spanish referee though fellas.

Its going to be like the Italian Olympic Springboard Team tonight I'm afraid Aussies.

An amusing thing to do especially if you will be drinking with Italians tonight is to make some scorecards and give them marks out of 10.

[Pink Mist]

so we are gonn be in for another clown for a ref

[warriors]

so we are gonn be in for another clown for a ref

Im afraid so. Yet I will be there a proud Kiwi as always supporting England and the AUSY team in the Ausy Bar on soi 7/1 drinking and praying with my new Ausy mates. Go the Ausy machine

[Old Croc]

so we are gonn be in for another clown for a ref

Im afraid so. Yet I will be there a proud Kiwi as always supporting England and the AUSY team in the Ausy Bar on soi 7/1 drinking and praying with my new Ausy mates. Go the Ausy machine

So you're not like Chuckok. He supports NZ and any one playing Australia

[donna]

i hate soccer.....BUT im riding that bandwagon right now and praying we beat the italians.

GO YOU AUSSIE BOYS... WOP 'EM....

[Donz]

We will beat the italians, thanks for wishing us good luck, but the Italians are the ones who need the luck tonight.

[thaigerd]

OK from me aswell:

GOOD LUCK FOR THE AUSSIE TEAM

but we'll see you in the final:

Gerd (not Mueller)

[warriors]

so we are gonn be in for another clown for a ref

Im afraid so. Yet I will be there a proud Kiwi as always supporting England and the AUSY team in the Ausy Bar on soi 7/1 drinking and praying with my new Ausy mates. Go the Ausy machine

So you're not like Chuckok. He supports NZ and any one playing Australia

After the world cup I will revert back to being just like Chuckok it's in our Kiwi Blood. Yet I have only lived in N.Z. for 45 years after arriving from England 45 years ago.

[steveromagnino]

Go the Aussies. YOu can do it. Rip their <deleted>' red wine drinking espresso swilling heads off.

From a sort of Kiwi.

(actually a very Kiwi after watching The World's Fastest Indian)

[britmaveric]

Italians will dominate - good run for the Roos. Hope you can put up a good match and not be embarrassed.

[mrbojangles]

The Aussies aren't doing too bad. And now Italy are down to 10 men. Whoever wins this has a great chance of beating the winners of the Swiss Ukraine game

[britmaveric]

1-0 Italia!!!!!

[rainman]

looks like its over for australia. sad to see when they dominated the whole game.

[chonabot]

Daft to take the Eytie down in the box , nearly made it to extra time.....

[tom yum goong]

To be fair for the rest of the game the ref wasn't too bad, but its another game decided by a poor refereeing decision.

[britmaveric]

To be fair for the rest of the game the ref wasn't too bad, but its another game decided by a poor refereeing decision.

Italia should never have been down a man.

[chuchok]

so we are gonn be in for another clown for a ref

Im afraid so. Yet I will be there a proud Kiwi as always supporting England and the AUSY team in the Ausy Bar on soi 7/1 drinking and praying with my new Ausy mates. Go the Ausy machine

So you're not like Chuckok. He supports NZ and any one playing Australia

not true old croc.I certainly want you to beat the pasta eating mob,

[Donz]

shattered.

What a BS ref, he deserves to be shot

[chuchok]

Australian soccer fans vent anger at loss

9.30am Tuesday June 27, 2006

MELBOURNE - Angry soccer fans in Melbourne have hurled glass bottles and let off flares after Australia was eliminated from the World Cup by Italy earlier this morning, news agency AAP is reporting.

Most of the 10,000 soccer fans who had crammed into Federation Square in central Melbourne remained well behaved throughout the match, said the AAP report, but the mood turned nasty when Italy scored a last-gasp 1-0 victory today to secure a World Cup quarter-finals berth.

Shell-shocked fans watched big screens in disbelief as Francesco Totti's injury-time penalty killed the Socceroos' hopes of going through to the last eight.

Some Socceroos supporters vented their disappointment by throwing glass bottles at the big screen and stage area, narrowly missing security staff and media.

Other fans began kicking large plastic barricades placed around the stage area.

A flare was let off by a member of the crowd and landed on the roof of a building adjacent to the stage.

As fans began to make their way out of the area one man yelled "let's start a riot", according to AAP.

A fight broke out between a group of 15 soccer fans but was quickly brought under control by security staff and police.

More flares were let off along Swanston Street as the crowd began moving out of Federation Square.

Earlier at least four flares were let off when the match began.

"It seems to be that there are still those who insist on bringing them (flares)," Superintendent Mick Williams told AAP.

"I know there is a feeling out there that it is part of the soccer culture, but at the end of the day it is very dangerous."

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of football fans turned out all across Australia in the early hours of this morning to watch the Socceroos' heart-breaking World Cup exit.

Sydney had the largest gatherings.

There was a huge turnout in Leichhardt in Sydney's inner west - the home of the city's Italian community - where ABC Radio today reported 20,000 fans packed into Norton Street.

Rowdy Italian fans let off flares and hugged each other when the winning goal was scored, while despondent Australians skulked home after the game.

The crowds, meanwhile, were so big at Circular Quay that police were forced to ask late-arriving fans to go elsewhere.

The crowds had begun partying hours before the game began, intent on celebrating Australia's advance to a second round berth that few predicted before the tournament began in Germany.

In Norton Street, they crammed every vantage point to watch the game on a 10-metre screen, with those unable to find a spot at street level perching on balconies and shop roofs.

Prime Minister John Howard, in Indonesia on an official visit, was disappointed with the manner of the Socceroos' loss, ABC Radio reported this morning.

"I'm broken-hearted," he told reporters. "It's a very cruel way to lose, right on the knocker like that, but the team just played so bravely the whole match."

- HERALD ONLINE STAFF, AGENCIES

Tsk,tsk....

[Tornado]

Many dives from the Italians, Im still unsure about the penalty, but we did well against them.

Adelaide oval was packed and freezing!