No doubt!

When does this open up for betting?

01:00 EST 26 Jun 2006

aus ftw.....

GO AUSTRALIA

go the aussies !!!!!!!

All the aussies need to bet on this so that the odds aren't such shit for italy anymore

Reply to 8 (Why is my reply to box greyed out?):

How is it not making it past group stages? LOL, WAY TO BE SHIT AT SPORT AMERICA!

LOL click the reply on his post, it auto does it.

GO AUSSIE:D

Hrm.. why isnt there the drop down anymore :o

It's complex... anyway if you miss it the first time you can always click edit.

Fair enough, thanks bro ;)

.. im just a lazy bastard some times :p

what is this sometimes business?

GO AUSTRALIA!!1111111111111111111

everything left over on aus

Go Aussies!

damn, too many bets on aus, I thought when I got home it'd be 10/90 or something.

go australia =D

pfff GOOO ITALY

Nice ref again.

Lucky win... but thx for the money :-}

:|

Pointless worldcup with all these retarded referees.

Indeed.

These refs are making Poll look like a fucking awesome referee :/

hope you're not referring to Holland-Portugal here, cause in that "match" the players behaved surely more retarded than the ref. Goes for both teams of course.

lolmao @ referee... lot of errors for both sides...

but, in the end, totti put his "cucchiaio" up in his ass (tnx god) and he did a good shoot.

australians cant score a goal against 10 italians? o_O

Much more suprising things happen in football.

Italy is very good at playing all def :/

FUCK ITATY
FUCK REFEREE
FUCK DUCK
FUCK

LOL :D

for money!!?

aussies couldn't even take advantage of the referee's outrageous red card to materazzi, so the better team won the game at the end of the day :)

More like the fucken ref won the game.

sadly the refs are the true protagonists of this wc :(

very few goals so far for the 1/8 finals, it seems...

What a fucking bullshit free kick

Funny how the Italy game is the one with the dodgy decision............

funny how almost every game sees dodgy decisions...

Yeah but this was quite blatant others, not so clear cut :)

yeah the penalty can be arguable when watched in slowmo, but didn't seem that much during the action and the ref can judge only in that occasion... i think he was predisposed to some type of compensation about the wrong red card

If you watch it at 10x as fast as normal it's still obvious. I mean the guy "tackled" was way short/early, Italian guy kicks the ball past and then just runs through him and falls over. It's totally funny. On the positive side of things, those Aussies who can't play football without kicking/fouling the other players are out.

Cmon, what player wouldn't search the foul in an occasion like that? A defender taking out 2mens at 92' with your team in 10! The aussie guy is an obstacle for Grosso who isn't really obliged to avoid him, then it's up to the ref. I'm the first to say that the penalty is weak but not that ungiveable, since the ref conduct was very strict (against us btw as for Materazzi).

It wasn't a penalty, didn't look like there was one either (From any angle or at any speed).

Cmon, what player wouldn't search the foul in an occasion like that?

That just goes to show how shit football is getting, where players are more concerned about getting players booked/sent-off/free kicks/penalties than actually playing football :/

That just goes to show how shit football is getting, where players are more concerned about getting players booked/sent-off/free kicks/penalties than actually playing football :/

oh, it is not as bad as you describe it. it is more like an italian tradition to fly theatratically through the 16m area. inzaghi anyone? with some huge exceptions like the portugal - holland game the wc is pretty fair so far. the huge amount of yellow and red cards given by now just let's look otherwise. but this amount is due to stupid fifa rules and the referees enforcing it

exactly

Okay, we agree that we don't agree on the penalty :D

That just goes to show how shit football is getting, where players are more concerned about getting players booked/sent-off/free kicks/penalties than actually playing football :/

I think that goes for any sport and the problem is in who makes and applies the rules, players of any game tend to exploit them to the maximum.
I don't think having a video replay for the refs during the match is such a technological problem in 21st century, but you need a scandal like the one now in italy to make things like that to change... and if they didn't after korea, it won't happen anymore :)

or they could ass a rule that divers can be punished for it after the game, e.g. with a yello cards which might cost them playing in a future game

On the positive side of things, those Aussies who can't play football without kicking/fouling the other players are out.

get fucked ;P

disapointing result :(
bl Australia <3
gg retarded ref !
new replay footage http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7682/italianjob7zo.gif

hehe

I think Marlon Brando said it best.... "The Horror"

sorry for the late reply, 2 days of mourning =(

WD to the boys tho... did us proud, surely we won't have to wait another 32 years to qualify now that we have 4 1/2 spots to go for instead on 1/2