Typical Saudi mentality. It's why you never see any of their better players go to Europe because they enjoy being big fish in small ponds. Can't deal with the fact that on a global scale, they just aren't that great.

Surprised they didn't lobby to FIFA when Germany beat them 8-0 at the 2002 World Cup.

Lol. If a team is better than you, dont try and improve yourself, just dont let them play with you!

This bloke is taking butthurt levels to strange new hights

The guy tweeted this as well.



Then he re tweeted this bullshit.



Edited by socceroofan4life: 29/1/2015 08:10:00 AM

More like every other country in the world lol.

-PB

This crossed my mind too when I was at the Iran vs UAE match.

It was fantastic to see so many w.omen at the match, many looking lovely and totally exited about the match. It was a joy to see but saddened by the thought that they would never have a chance to do this in their own home country

this. Funny how ricecrackers ,50 cal puskas and co come out when all is well.

I say we try Africa next, give it 8 years then move up to South America. One step at a time.

All you did was rehash the rumours in to a post and claimed they were true.

How you havent been banned is all down to JoFFA's incompetence.

little bird told me there's quite a bit to this.
the FFA and Australia havent really brought anything to the AFC table in terms of revenue or sponsorship

its all take

could be Australia's last Asian Cup. Enjoy the moment while its lasts.

weren't the Iranian players banned from taking photos with women during the tournament as well?

I don't think you realise how threatening that is to the Arabs, particularly the Saudis.

It is also a threat to the Saudis and other Arab countries to see TV telecasts of the Asian Cup matches in Australia showing women being free to come to football matches. This is not a joke. Just seeing women at Aussie football matches would be confronting to their culture. There's no comparison with cartoons, but don't kid yourself that there's no negative response to seeing those things about Australia.

Then again, most East Asian countries -- Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand etc. women are free to attend football matches.

Surprise fucking surprise a Saudi owned network stirring up and trying to kick us out.

And they wonder why no one likes them.

:-$ we tried that too..... it didn't turn out so well.

We da best

The influence the AFC wields (by way of corporate power) comes from predominantly 4 countries: Japan, South Korea, U.A.E and Qatar.

Why would they split this if they didn't have to?

Iran just can't handle losing.

-PB

Everything but expanding the WC +1

32 teams is enough if anything drop the confederations cup host the world cup ever 3 years.

To be completely honest a reshuffle of confederations would probably be ideal.

Consider that the AFC, OFC and CAF have 4.5, 0.5 and 5 places respectively. Working within that basis alone and reshuffling these 3 into 3 new confederations you could split Asia and allow it to be based more on historical regions than simply making some Asian mega continent.

The aim would be having Middle East, "Asia" (East Asia, OFC & the rest of Asia not in the Middle East), and Africa. The way the exact split would work could be interesting, but ultimately I would do something like:

"East Asia": 3+ places
Middle East: 3+ places
CAF: 3+ places

With North Africa joining the Middle East. i.e. Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Egypt, etc. There would also be 1 further World Cup place to be split between them by whatever method. Historically "Africa" didn't actually start until "Libya" (that is, Egypt was part of the old definition of "Asia") .

Some might wonder what the benefit of this would be. Consider the teams at this time expected to qualify:

"East Asia": Japan, Korea and Australia [3 given]
Middle East: Iran, Egypt, Algeria [3 given]
Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast [3 given]
With there still being one more place to be spread between the 3.

North Africa historically have closer ties to the Middle East than the rest of Africa as well.

Farken well said lad! =d>

-PB

Can East Asia vote to evict the west? They can go fuck off and join the North Africans or something.

No. Not to the point where we'd have to start actually worrying.

Are there things that could be improved on our end? Yes, but we have no reason to start soiling our undies right now.

+ the vibe west asia gives us.

Is there any basis for this discussion beyond one random tweet?

The AFC should be thankful that the Asian cup has been played in front of packed stadiums for once.

Compared to the rest of Asia, not much of a population.

And moneywise, for football, comparatively little.

It would be overall a negative thing for us but looking at the pros & Cons

Cons:
- No ACL
- No Asian cup
- Potentially a more difficult rout to the world cup
- Less competitive international friendlies
- Financially & promotionally better off in Asia for i.e. WC qualifiers, Asian cup qualifiers etc

Pros
- (west) Asia is f*** corrupt
- Stop the talent drain to Asia
- We will more regualrly go to the confederations cup (a better and more competitive competition then the Asia cup)

It wouldn't be the end of the world probably better for us to stay but if we can't wouldn't be the end of the world..

theres no people and money in australia?