off!

The penalty in the last few seconds of the Australia vs Italy game was nothing but a joke. Once again, soccer makes a mockery of itself, with the Italian diving team getting the reward for its efforts. Shit penalty, even shitter referee. If FIFA is fair dinkum, the Italian diver will get suspended for the rest of the tournament – but that won’t happen, because FIFA is itself a joke.

The Spanish referee should never be appointed to an international level game again – he fell for the dive, gullible idiot.

Hopefully, Italy will go no further in this tournament. They don’t deserve to, having won by cheating.

On the other hand, once again, Australia showed its usual inability to capitalise on opportunities. How often do they dominate large chunks of a game, but just can’t score? Had they been good enough they could have scored and not been exposed to the risk of a dodgy penalty.

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