Australia v Serbia - June 23 - World Cup - Match 40 [R]

Let's get a win 3 - 0 please.

Cahill, Kennedy and Wilkshire to score

Please G-d that is what we need, let's make it 4-0 with Holman with the last goal.

PLEASE Johnny Warren hear our prayers guide the results and our boys into the next round!!!!

I see that Larrionda has been assigned as the ref on our game. Based on the referring forum, he is pretty strict. Perhaps Caesar can comment further on his record.

With both sides wanting a win, and Serbia also playing a physical style of football, I fear that we will see more cards. And knowing our history, no doubt some of them will not be good for our team.

We are increasingly getting a reputation as being too physical and "dirty". I found the unofficial comments from a FIFA official recently rather annoying, and the last thing we need in this campaign.

Hopefully none of this backdrop, and the nature of the referee assigned impacts on the game itself.

What was said? Do you have a link?

Getting excited about the game right now even though our chances are pretty slim

It's like saying "We screwed you with harsh/poor officiating, and now we'll screw you even more and cover our ass at the same time". How nice of them.

So how is it our fault that 3 of the 6 players are the opposition and 2 of the 3 Aussie players were unlucky to be sent off?

Obviously FIFA haven't acknowledged the mistakes they contributed toward those send offs either.

FIFA is the stupidest most incompetent organization ever. FIFA is a joke. They only care about the $$$ and not fair play. Let us show them what is up tomorrow!

You'd think they'd be professional enough not go in with those sort of preconceptions but here they are pandering them.

To totally plagiarise a comment I recently read >> I think we've been FIFA'd!!!!

I'd like to award FIFA the world's unofficial "biggest tool" award.
How about we total up the amount of b******t decisions made by FIFA referees in Australia's last 6 WC matches.

So 3 of the 6 cards were for the opposition (and it took 3 yellows to get Simunic off). Harry's was for an unlucky, non deliberate (in the dictionary, not FIFA sense) hand ball, Emerton's second yellow was for a ball to hand hand ball in the farce that was the Croatia game and Cahill's red - the only foul play red we have got - should have been a yellow, especially comparing it too some other tackles of the World Cup.

HTF does this make us a dirty team?

c'mon guys every card u got theirs 5 foul call and 10 that aint

like ceser salad say, card is more for slo team always geting beat. it aint big deal just get faster and play little smarter

theirs so many sh1t team asia even if it take time fix stuff ur gona still can compete

LOL, anyway Tim Cahill scores a beautiful header, but Ghana is trailing 1-0 right now.. not looking good for Australia.

2nd goal for aussies. Why am i the only one celebrating?

Come on you Aussies.

goodby aussie

shwarver screwed the pooch gol serbs

Why couldn't we have played like this from the start?

Nice work boys, should have scored more though. I HATE YOU FIFA.

Just the only one taking time off from cheering them on