Bad night all round

After the excitement (and hangover) of the Thailand game, Saturday's quarter final loss against Japan was very disappointing. Game was ruined by the soft Japanese player who went down from a Vince Grella challenge (or as the WWE calls a 'clothes line') for which the Socceroos were reduced to 10 men.


Grella sending off ....................................Naohiro Takahara -19 for Japan

Aussies did well to get to penalties given the humid conditions in sweaty ol' Hanoi (i sweated just walking to the toilet and back). Watched the game in a bar in Bangkok with a number of Japanese tourists who were quite polite but annoyingly loud at the end of the game. I now can dislike the Japanese for this as well as World War 2 and Tom Cruise's 'The Last Samurai'.


Major Japanese autocracies of the last 60 years

Am very sad