The game against Chile in the confeds cup will forever be etched in my memory as the preferred template for Socceroos teams moving forward.

Well played Australia. But 12 years on from the game against Italy we are still slide tackling in our own penalty box. Please stop it. You must know that the big football nations always get the benefit of any doubt against us. We need to wise up and use gamesmanship on the big stage like they do against us. The only areas they outperformed us last night was winning free kicks, diving, acting, getting yellow cards on us. Time wasting. Leckie got a yellow card but where was the yellow card for the French central defender who deliberately handed the ball? Did we ask the ref where was the yellow card for him? No. Please wake up and stop being naive because we have been getting beaten by this gamesmanship for more than 20 years and we will until we give them a dose of their own medicine.