Blatter apologises to Australia!!!

Mr. Presentable

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-10-29T075159Z_01_SP211509_RTRIDST_0_SPORT-SOCCER-BLATTER-APOLOGY.XML&WTmodLoc=World+Football-C1-Headline-1

arbeitsscheuer

On this occasion he's spot on. Bit late now tho, innit?

Mr. Presentable

The thing is, even had the Italy goal not been scored, Australia didn't score. How could they have advanced?

The guy has no class - he didn't present the trophy to the winning captain. He needs votes for the next election from the Oceania group, which is where, wait for it, Australia are!

Xavi6

Damn right it's bloody late. An absolute disgrace of a decision and one that left me angry and gutted for weeks after. Typical Blatter trying to get on the right side of fans.

therecklessone

nipplenuts wrote:

The thing is, even had the Italy goal not been scored, Australia didn't score. How could they have advanced?

The guy has no class - he didn't present the trophy to the winning captain. He needs votes for the next election from the Oceania group, which is where, wait for it, Australia are!

Just thinking that, is the election soon?

_blank_

nipplenuts wrote:

Oceania group, which is where, wait for it, Australia are!

No they aren't.

Australia joined the Asian Federation just after they qualified for the WC.

Mossy Monk

to quote the front page of that Sydney newspaper

FUCKING BULLSHIT

i hate that bastard Sepp Blatter

Mr. Presentable

seansouth wrote:

No they aren't.

Australia joined the Asian Federation just after they qualified for the WC.

I stand corrected.

Why would they do that? Surely they're a better bet to qualify from Oceania.

Helix

asia get automatic qualifiers, oceania dont

i would imagine

Big Ears

nipplenuts wrote:

I stand corrected.

Why would they do that? Surely they're a better bet to qualify from Oceania.

It was done because Oceania was denied 1 automatic qualifying place for the World Cup , meaning that every four years they have a play off with a South American side to go through(often a tough task , and making the world cup is basically decided over 2 games) . Although most Asians sides are better than ones in Oceania , qualifying as a whole will probably be easier and they also get to play better sides more regulary(Oceania is extremely uncompetitive for them and playing internationals against piss poor nations isn't going to help develop players) .

daiixi

nipplenuts wrote:

The thing is, even had the Italy goal not been scored, Australia didn't score. How could they have advanced?

We only needed the draw to advance.

Guy:Incognito

Swapping federations is a load of crap. Why dont we go find an easier federation to qualify from and join that so? Or swapp every other year to play in the african nations aswelll as the european one?

el rabitos

isnt he supposed to go to australia and get kicked up the rear end with a giant boot if he wants to appologise?

Chucky the tree

Stekelly wrote:

Swapping federations is a load of crap. Why dont we go find an easier federation to qualify from and join that so? Or swapp every other year to play in the african nations aswelll as the european one?

Asian one is harder then the Oceania one.

Xavi6

daiixi wrote:

We only needed the draw to advance.

How do you work that out? All Totti's goal did was prevent extra time. The game was in the knockout stages.