What an ignominious way to exit the world cup.
Replays show that Lucas Neill had nothing to do with Grosso's drop in the penalty box. About the only thing that DID have something to do with his drop was gravity.
But I'm not going to complain about the ref. Overall, a tremendously better job than Graham Poll, or the Russian ref whose control was absent for much of the Portugal/Holland game.
Australians have much to be proud of, and now that Australia is in the Asian group, with some real skill to play against, the team should just get stronger. The ball play, crisp passing and dominance of the game against Italy belied the pre tournament sentiment that the Australians would be a thuggish team. Chipperfield (driving a bus to make ends meet just a few years ago), Bresciano, Aloisi, Sterjowski and the rest of the relative unknowns (to the rest of the world) of the Socceroos played beautiful football.
(Trivia -- in the lead up to the 2001 World Cup, Australia beat the Solomon Islands 31-0, with 13 goals to Archie Thompson. Clearly NOT the challenge a growing team needs)
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Carl Sagan
