O'MAN THAT WAS CLOSE

You just knew that if Australia was going to pull itself out of a lackluster performance and grab a share of the points it was going to be one Tim Cahill who would pop up and score. As he did only 12 months ago Cahill proved Australia's saviour in our time of need, and wernt we in need! Truth be told if it wasnt for the heroics of Mark Schwarzer, Cahills goal may have only made the score line a respectable 4-1, as the Omanies (for lack of a better nickname) really should have won the game. Schwarzer showed yet again why he is one of the best shot stoppers in the game, and i really do wish for his sake he leaves Boro because he deserves better.

I must admit, as the 90th minute ticked over i was kicking myself for not having some money on Oman to win, as Centrebet was offering a massive $11. Why people think we a walk up starter in the final is beyond me for 2 reasons, 1-we rnt as good as people think and 2-alot of these asian teams are alot better than people think. The Omanies proved last night that if you can steal a goal and defend like your life depends on it, you can match it with a supposed "quality" opposition. Add to that their ability to time waste and you have a good combo, but ill get to that latter, because it shits me to tears!

Attacking wise last night, that was about as ineffective as I have seen us in quite some time, due in some respect to the Oman defence, that fella marking Fat Viduka was outstanding. He took Mark right out of the game, and by the 2nd half i thought he should have been replaced because he seem to loose all interest and was never going to score. Our distribution from central midfield was the worst ive seen it, I cant recall Grella and Culina making more than a handful of succesful passes.

Ive said it before and ill say it again, Luke Wilkshire should not even be in the squad, let alone taking every set piece!!!!!!! Here is a question for you, is Brett Emerton the dumbest footballer on the planet? Their goal came as a direct result of him not doing the most basic thing as following his players run!

In the end we were lucky to get the draw, the funny thing is though it is the Omanies own fault we even had the chance. A massive 4 minutes of added time came as a direct result of their pathetic play acting! Every single time they went down the ref stopped his watch, in the end giving us time to score, so was it justice in the end? No way! Why? Because it should never have happened in the 1st place!

Its cheating, plain and simple! I had to retrain myself from putting my fist through the tv screen in anger at the horrible display of acting that even Madonna would have been ashamed of. It is a blight on the game and 1 than needs to be stamped out. The difference between the 2 teams can been shown by the fact that Kewell was hammered twice early and all he did was sit up, pull his socks up and hurl abuse at that guy would looked a bit like a woman (or was that just me?), you compare this to the fact that everytime as aussie breathed heavily near 1 of them he went down like he had been hit by an elephant!

My answer, everytime a player needs treatment and is taken to the sidlines, they have 2 spend a min 3 minutes on the sideline before they can return. Can you imagine the amount of crap and abuse a player would recieve from his own team and supporters if he faked an injury at an important stage of the game and left his side a man down for an extended amount of time and he wasnt really hurt?

Just my opinion!

Sir Boom