Go the Roos!!!!!!!!

The euphoria is just starting to wear off after a heart stopping morning. How bloody awesome was that game? Australia has finally made it into the next round and I couldn't be more prouder! Although we were really close to being eliminated after the shit arse performance of the goal keeper and the referee! I mean what the hell was that? Lets list a few things that happened:

Goalie:

1. Fumbled and almost dropped the ball into his own goal despite no pressure from the other team
2. Making a "block" after a piss weak attempt at scoring a goal, have the ball bounce off his hands, roll over his body and lazily roll into the goal
3. Last 10mins was complete shambles. If it wasn't for the Australian defence, it would've been a different outcome

Referee:

1. Not issuing a penalty after Viduka was locked in a full body hug rugby style. My half asleep brain was thinking this was one weird twisted gay porn the way the guy has his arms around Viduka
2. Not issuing a penalty after a CLEAR handball by Croatia
3. Sending Emerton off with 2 yellow cards after he took a block causing a handball. Errr.....refer to the point 3????
   
4. Issuing THREE yellow cards to the ONE player! Excuse me? 2 Yellow cards = 1 red card = getting sent off! Its a VERY simple equation!
5. I don't know if this is his fault or not, but there was no indication of injury time until almost 2mins into injury time! Some notification would be good!
6. Not controlling the game so there was 2 balls on the field
7. Allowing the game to play beyond the injury time (I didn't hear any fulltime whistle go off AT ALL)
8. Since he allowed play after point 6, the game was obviously not over. Australia scores and suddenly he disallows it because it was "fulltime". Excuse me? You SUDDENLY decide that its fulltime just as Australia was attacking? Correct me if I'm wrong, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT! And I STILL didn't hear the fulltime whistle! You were blowing the whistle left right and centre!

The refereeing was a complete mess! We're just lucky that because of his shonky refereeing, Kewell was able to score the equalising goal (even though he was just a TAD) offside. Usually with 10mins to go in a game, you can feel fairly confident that the score wouldn't change that much. But this match......omg.....Croatia was outside of Australia's goal dancing around for the last 10mins, we had a shitty goal keeper and an even shittier referee, every few seconds my heart will skip a beat. My heart was in my throat and I thought I was going to throw up if they didn't blow the fulltime whistle soon. I was watching with my dad saying:

"Omg! we've only got 9mins 30secs left! 9mins left! OMG! 8mins 45secs left! 8mins 30secs left! OMG OMG 8mins left!"

I couldn't sit for the last 5mins of the game. And when the game finally ended, and we were into the next round, I was ecstatic! Both of us were yelling and cheering, running around the livingroom. My dog started going nuts because he's never seen us run around yelling like that before! We're finally into the next round! GO ROOS! Guus for PM!