The Asian Cup 2015
Heads have dropped
Heads have dropped
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The Asian Cup 2015
Harper blaming ref. Why? I have no fucking idea. Too many silly quick free kicks and giving possession away in last five minutes. Not streetwise enough. Korea deserved the equaliser, but still gutting.Comment
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James Troisi restores Australia's lead after some good build-up play - and once again, right on the whistle...Comment
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More excellent refereeing ends with Juric producing some magic and Troisi finishing it off.
Australia playing much better in ET so far.Comment
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Epic stuff.Comment
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Australia win their first major football tournament. Congrats to them.Comment
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Fantastic effort. Glad it went to extra time because it would have been burglary to nick it in the 90. South Korea were excellent.Comment
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Newman's tosspot tea-party government getting booted in Queensland after having a margin of over 60 seats and Australia win. That'll do for a decent Saturday night.Comment
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The Oceania cup could have been considered one when both Australia and NZ were involved.Jah Womble wrote: Australia win their first major football tournament. Congrats to them.Comment
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Well, I was thinking more of any tournament they weren't nailed on to win before it had even started.Comment
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Well that sounds like it was dramatic. Korea obviously used all their football karma up in one go in 2002.Comment
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Not quite sure about the ref being excellent... he gave Robbie Kruse a yellow card for time wasting when he was writhing in agony with a snapped achilles tendon.
Most people had written off this Australia team after a string of defeats in friendlies last year, so it was an unexpected win, really.Comment
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Breathless, scintillating stuff. Korea will feel unlucky, having been far better technically, and unleashing an absolute onslaught early on. But their final ball was lacking and that was enough to give Australia some threads to cling onto, which they did.
And when Australia did get an occasional glimpse of goal, they used it. The first goal was out of nowhere, totally against the run. But when SK equalised just on normal time and heads were dropping I thought it was curtains.
But Postacoglu must have got them fired up again, and I think Australia were marginally less exhausted as extra time wore on. Somehow when Juric was on his arse, back to goal, and still holding onto the ball I knew there was about to be a goal, it was one of those moments. But it remained tense all the way home.
Postacoglu wants his team to play a flowing, passing game, but last night what was needed was 120 minutes backs-to-the-wall and they delivered. "A shame there had to be a loser" is a cliche but here it was true. I felt especially sorry for the Korean right back Cha Du-Ri, 34, who was a force of nature down the flank in his last international.
Wow.Comment
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Maybe Ange P. repeated Alf Ramsay's epic words of inspiration in the break before extra time started: "You've won it once; now go out and win it again"!
Loved the way Sepp Blatter glared around at the crowd after he was booed- like he was taking note of names..Comment
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A fantastically tense final which was riveting viewing all the way to the end, despite the one-sided comments from Andy Harper throughout.
Did anyone else notice the first 10mins had a different commentary team? I know it's the norm on Radio 5 Live to switch commentators halfway through each half, so can we expect more of this from the TV companies now? Maybe we should have a live vote to get rid of the crap ones; "Taxi for Harper!"Comment
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In their own country, 'twas ever going to be thus.Korea obviously used all their football karma up in one go in 2002.Comment
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Japan have sacked Aguirre.Comment
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