Socceroos go down to Italy
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Australia’s Socceroos got the short end of the stick today in their second round World Cup match against Italy. It was a great macth and very hotly-contested but the Australians were brought down, not by a goal, but by a terrible decision by the referee Luis Medina to award a penalty when there should have been none. Fabio Grosso tripped over Australian Lucas Neill. In Spanish referee Luis Medina’s book however, that’s a foul and a penalty. And the thing is I remember the Spaniards complaining in Japan/South Korea 2002 that it’s the third world referees that are so bad. Sure they are…
And it has to suck for them. Because the Australians were doing a great job in Germany especially when the U.S. coach Bruce Arena try to bad-talk them and us saying that we were the weak links in the tournament. Since then the mighty 5th ranked US did worse in the tournament that T&T and left with just one point. Bruce Arena, try and hush yuh mouth next time, dread.
Anyway I feel it for the Aussies. They should not have lost in that manner.
In any case, do we here in Trinidad and the Caribbean really need Australia to be good at yet another sport that we play?
