Australia fkin ROXOrs1

So, to summarise:
* WTF is with starting Kalac?
* Why do we insist on leaving it till the last freakin minute?
* Emerton - red card? FUCK OFF
* Viduka - shoot maybe?
* KEWELL - TO CULINA - OMGWTFOMG!
* Craig Moore - teh champion
* C'MON ITALY!

In Gibbelstadt atm, a small community outside of Würzburg. Würzburg itself is about the size of Canberra in population, but 500 years older then our whole country. We spent a few hours in Öhringen, but the Australian training was closed - which sucked. We then lugged our bags back to the train and off to Würzburg.

We have to claim our conditional tickets in Kaiserslauten for the game on Monday. If Aus manages to knock over the Italians I ought to be able to get tickets to the later games without to much trouble since the FFA is making the tickets available on-site for Australians currently in Germany, and only per person. Of course knocking over Italy won't be too easy.

Emerton getting his second group stage yellow sucked. I would have put my money on it being Grella to succumb first. Fortunately I think he was the only person to pick up a suspension booking, so everyone elses cards are wiped now. So full strength minus Emo - I expect Bresciano will be first inline to take his position. Other posibilities are Skoko to finally get a run, maybe as a second defensive midfielder. Culina will probably be moved to right wing/back. Watching all but Italy's first game - they look a decent unit. They have scored 3 goals, at the death by beating the offside trap, which means if Aus continues its policy of going behind early and coming from behind late in the game, we may/probably will get sucker punched like against Brazil.

Fortunatey we performed the best against Brazil, when there was no pressure to win against the high profile team, and the same should be the case against Italy hopefully - that said, this is no longer group stage and extra time and penalties might beckon too. A draw is a firm possibility, but Italy is more attacking then they were in years gone past.

Just watched Germany step up another level and demolish Sweden inside of 15 minutes. the red card was a bit harsh and ruined the event as a spectacle, but Germany was always going to win. England needs to find several gears and soon if they want to avoid annihlation when they meet Germany. Argentina v Germany ought to be a special game. I haven't seen Brazil v Japan but Germany is certianly showing the type of clear progression in form that charachterises tournament winning teams.