I dont know about you guys, but I sat up till 0100 this morning watching a game that makes very little sense to me and feeling sick about the Aussies looking like they were going to loose!

BUT in the last eight minutes Tim Cahill and John Aloise wrote their names into the World Cup record books kicking the first ever goals for an Australian team in a World Cup.

Just like many of my country men and women, I yelled, jumped off the couch and ran around the loungeroom with my jumper over my head………………well, not really, but I was excited.

I must say it was a fine conclusion to what had been a disapointing footy day for me as, in the afternoon, my beloved AFL team, Collingwood was ’slopped’ for the first time this season in a game that saw them look most ‘unorganised’ so it was great to see the Socceroos play well and win convincingly!

I must say it was also great to see all that yellow and green in the stands in Germany and to hear my fellow Aussies chanting and singing. I know it sounds a bit jingoistic…………a bit ‘Land down-under”, a bit “vegimite on toast”……..but it does a weird thing to me when I see representatives of my country perform well on the world stage…………even if it is just in a game, at least it’s an improvement on feeling totally ashamed by the performance of our political leaders in the same world environments!

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