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[LFC #1]

Well done to australia, defo deserved it.

Only disappointing thing was the majority of fans booing the Uruguayan national anthem, thought it was disgraceful and uttlerly disrespectful. It didn't surpirse me that much to be fair as I was at the All Blacks v Wallabies game in Sydney this year and a lot of the Aussies booed the haka, not on really.

Anyway well done to Australia, the players did you proud and Kewell had a cracker which was good to seee.

[babu]

Johnny Warren, you told us so.  You always said that when Australia made it you'd say 'I told you so' its heartbreaking to think you died less than year before it happened, but i think you were there watching us and Johnny Warren, on behalf of all Australians I say

'We hear you'

hear hear

'wipes away tears'

[azriahmad]

Congratulations to all the Aussies! Good show.

This should teach the likes of Recoba to boast that they "have a devine right to be in the World Cup" that such a pharas should only be uttered AFTER one wins the tie, not just after one of the legs in the tie. Reminds me of the Juventus players like Emerson who boasted that they will cream Liverpool after going down only 2-1 at Anfield in the first leg of last season's CL.

Good on you, mates. Enjoy the tournament in Germany come next summer!

[anfieldadorer]

kewell back to his best

[Red @ Heart]

well done Australia,

Maybe wales can qualify next time  

[Lionheart]

hey guys...I have just got back into the city from Telstra Stadium. This place is going off!!! Impromptu street parades...dancing in the street. I can't tell how special this is to all Australians...but it is also EXTRA special for me.

I attended the 1974 qualifying game with my Father & now I have attended this qualifier with my son. There is no shame in saying I had a tear in my eye.

This is VERY special

Thanks to everyone for their best wishes to the perennial bridesmaids...but this time we are the brides.

Aussies... WE'RE GOING TO GERMANY

[Judge]

well done Australia,

Maybe wales can qualify next time  

i think your asking too much there 










well done Oz

[el_stinger]

hey guys...I have just got back into the city from Telstra Stadium. This place is going off!!! Impromptu street parades...dancing in the street. I can't tell how special this is to all Australians...but it is also EXTRA special for me.

I attended the 1974 qualifying game with my Father & now I have attended this qualifier with my son. There is no shame in saying I had a tear in my eye.

This is VERY special

Thanks to everyone for their best wishes to the perennial bridesmaids...but this time we are the brides.

Aussies... WE'RE GOING TO GERMANY

*cough* VIDUKA SUCKS *cough*

[Red]

YOU BEAUTY!

Go the Kewell, he played well!

Go the Swarzerneggar!

I cried last night, I was 4 when we last made the world cup and I had my son watching with me last night and he is 4 years old. I had him booin Recoba and cheering our guys, was a beautiful thing. His mum (aka the wife) wasnt too happy with his 10.55pm bedtime BUT TOO FREAKIN BAD.

[flombs]

I knew we were if it went to penalties. The only good thing that will come off this is the Uruguayan coach will finally get sacked. Clueless substitutions. Played for a draw from the beginning. Took no chances. Oh well.

I don't think Australia have a great team or anything, but good luck to them. Harry was great. Still don't like to see him take all those dives, though.

mate, australia played the national uruguayan diving team. Alvaro recoba said it was the divine right of uruguay to get to the finals.....well, johnny warren was smiling from above and helped us with abit of divine intervention. i no you guys are pationate but wake up and smell the roses. an example is cant remember whom from the diving team it was but when he went down he covered his eyes and then did a sly picka boo to see what the ref was going to give. Divine right my !   

[el_stinger]

I knew we were if it went to penalties. The only good thing that will come off this is the Uruguayan coach will finally get sacked. Clueless substitutions. Played for a draw from the beginning. Took no chances. Oh well.

I don't think Australia have a great team or anything, but good luck to them. Harry was great. Still don't like to see him take all those dives, though.

mate, australia played the national uruguayan diving team. Alvaro recoba said it was the divine right of uruguay to get to the finals.....well, johnny warren was smiling from above and helped us with abit of divine intervention. i no you guys are pationate but wake up and smell the roses. an example is cant remember whom from the diving team it was but when he went down he covered his eyes and then did a sly picka boo to see what the ref was going to give. Divine right my !   

Poor gamesmanship too. The ball pressure, the time wasting, diving, the coach not throwing the ball to Kewell for a throw in, yea, we really would have enjoyed Urgay being in the biggest stage of all. NOT.

GO YOU AUSSIES>>>>>>>>>>

[flombs]

and the bloody coach threw the ball to hit one of our guys on the back when it was a throw in! i mean in any other game he would have been sent to the stands. im glad we won this one after all the uruguayan dirty tactics.

[el_stinger]

dirty..... I got a jpeg pic that I will try an upload on here, its fu.cking hilarious.....along the likes of URGAY lol

[AussieKopite]

Well done to australia, defo deserved it.

Only disappointing thing was the majority of fans booing the Uruguayan national anthem, thought it was disgraceful and uttlerly disrespectful. It didn't surpirse me that much to be fair as I was at the All Blacks v Wallabies game in Sydney this year and a lot of the Aussies booed the haka, not on really.

Anyway well done to Australia, the players did you proud and Kewell had a cracker which was good to seee.

Maybe the booing the Anthem went a bit far. But there is nothing wrong with booing the haka as its not their anthem. The haka is a war cry/dance, its ment to intimidate the opposition. That's why I loved it when Samoa started doing their haka in the Rugby World Cup while New Zealand were in the middle of theirs. George Gregan has previously turned his back on the haka and the Australian Rugby League team tries to trivialise and make the haka look like a joke. The Australian Rugby Union team's intimidation at home consists of an entire stadium sing "Waltzing Matilda".

Bottom line, its okay to boo the haka.

[bigmick]

Sorry but I don't agree. I think it shows a lack of respect for your opponent, which is sort of OK at club or provincial level but not when it's on an International stage. It's the equivalent of the Aussies doing a "baggy green" ceremony at Lords for a debutant, Ian Healy presenting the nervous incumbent with his sacred headgear and the sparse crowd breaking into a verse of "Ian Healy, he's a w@nker, he's a w@nker". You just don't do it.
The haka was a wardance around the time of it's conception, in the same way that lots of marching band music was the tune played before battle and designed to ready the men for the kill. These days however it is little more than an opened out huddle, a part of the special spectacle when going to watch in particular the All Blacks perform.
It does us no credit whatsoever that we (the English) were the first to disrespect our opponents in this way. We had some idiot hooker from the West country who took to walking upto the half-way line and "confronting" the haka eyeball to eyeball. How sad it is when people are asked to do the most simple thing, namely stand there and shut up for a minute that they are unable to restrain themselves. Like the fool who breaks the minutes silence for the thrill of hearing his voice echo around the stadium or boos opposition National Anthems, disrespecting people and rituals cannot be right. 
I know this. If I took my little lad to a rugby match in which New Zealand were involved and found that they had dropped the Haka as nobody took it seriously or paid it any respect anymore I would not be sending my thanks to that fat fool from Bristol, nor indeed to the fans from down under either.