What an absolute
shambles of a game! Was at a mate's place this morning with a bunch of other reasonably biased Aussie fans, but what a horrible display of refereeing. Even the usually fairly reserved
Les Murray and
Craig Foster were amazingly scathing of the officials at the end of
SBS's coverage.
At the end we should have cheered but couldn't believe what we were seeing - a Croatian player with
three yellow cards still on the pitch, missed fouls everywhere and no replays shown of an extremely dodgy three extra-time minutes.
That off my chest, we're through! Got the bus into town with said mate after the match, got off in George Street only to be faced with a bunch of excited fans yelling "Don't go to work! Don't go to work!" directly at us. It was tempting, but there is work to be done unfortunately. So I'd better go do it :)