Friday 13th – Nightmare on Bangkok St.

Where does one begin the analysis of last nights game. Given that I'm in shock over the inept display by the majority of the Olyroos Socceroos and if I let my emotions take over then this would be one long rant and rave and that's not my style, I'll leave that to Sir Boom, but that was “farkin” terrible.

It was definitely a nightmare worthy of a Hollywood fright flick, scary to say the least, right from the kick off through to Lucas Neill getting his second yellow for complimenting the referee on his hair style, the Australian teams style of play was pedestrian at best. Why do we insist on playing Mark Viduka up front only to leave two of the best “goal thief's” in Tim Cahill and John Aloisi on the bench instead of capitalizing on butterballs V Bomber's ability to hold and distribute the ball.

"It was very disappointing," Arnold said.

"Three individual mistakes cost us the game. We worked hard to get back to 1-1 and then two individual mistakes killed us.

Bullshit that like me saying Robbie “I've got a winners medal” Slatter cost us the game from the commentary box, that's it we'll blame Robbie because he bored us to death.

But I digress, while I agree some players individual performances were poor, to say three individual mistakes cost us the game says it all for me. Be man enough to say we didn't attack enough, didn't score more goals than them, weren't prepared well enough, but please don't blame individual errors on the “teams” inability to win last nights game.

As a “team” Australia's performance was “farkin” shite.

So the sooner we stop basking in the glorious deeds of Germany 2006 the better, new coach, new attitude, new style of play, over to you Football Federation Australia.....................

Henry Bergkamp