A penalty should have been given but Serbia dont need to blame the referee for not making past the group stage. They had their chances but it wasnt to be. Antic can only blame himself for the starting 11 and his willingness to play the one striker system in a must win game. Oh well I just guess it wasnt meant to be. Euro 2012 is our target now and a some new blood needs to be tested. Bring in the likes of Djuricic, Stevanovic, Ljajic, Vukovic, Milanovic and Aleksic in. For Australia, its the Asian Cup and a good new coach please not Beenhacker he fucked up Real Madrid, Netherlands 1990 and Poland. Coach dosent have to be Dutch FFA.

That young bloke who came on in the 2nd half looks the goods. I think they said he plays with ManU?

There was no basis for the Cahill incident to be called handball.



Firstly he made no play at the ball with his arm ie contact was not deliberate and secondly the distance from his opponent was such that it was "unexpected ball". the ball did make contact with his arm but that does not constitute a foul unless the contact was deliberate. No competent referee would call it as a foul.

Football is a bitch... we should know.

Are they blind. That was not a handball at all. He didn't even have his face in the direction of the ball let alone his eyes and movement toward. WTF.

The off sides were close but correct.

The ref. decisions agaisnt us tonight were still very harsh, in fact we couldn't tackle at times because that is a free kick!?

If anyone was treated harshly its us not them. Lucky they didn't get a red for the studs up late tackle on Wilkshire. It would have been red for us not dought.

I'm sorry, but stop diving now. The games already over.

They certainly got a few soft free kicks. I thought they would have complained more about the offside than the hand ball as I thought that was very close and they only showed one reply. It was almost like we have a reputation for foul play. Mmmm yeah maybe we do. We also should have a reputation for not chucking ourselves on the ground when ever someone comes near us but that also didn't seem to sway the ref and we didn't get some free kicks I thought could have gone our way. Lucas started to show a bit of it when he got whacked (accidently) in the back off the head and fell down holding his face. You're a danger to yourself and a burden to others. Or is he? Will it take a change in our football culture so that we do fall down and milk free kicks. Until then are we some niave football back water that will never make the semis? F!@^( hope not.
And why the hell did he take Krasic off? Maybe your tactics didn't go as you'd hoped so you might like to blame someone else?

How the hell could anyone call that a handball, FIFA even reminded the referees at the start of the world cup that ball to hand incidents inside three feet were not to be given as free kicks. All those wanting to call it a handball are the same ones that want to kick the soceroos and drag them down no matter what the circumstances are, yeah just like you liverpool. Serbia got all the soft free kicks in this game. I can honestly say that if the shoe was on the other foot i would never have expected to get a penalty for that. Get a life you fucking eurosnobs.

Wow they think they got the hard end of the stick did they even scout any of our games, what a wanker

Sooks, clearly was not a penalty, Cahill has no opportunity to move his hand away from the ball approaching it. Sore losers I think.

That's football.

Edited by Tyson_85: 24/6/2010 05:39:33 PM

I have only one question for Radomar Antic, in reference to claims that they should have had a penalty...

Are you serious?

who are the whingers?

Jam it as far up your arses as it, whatever that may ne, will fit

AUS 2 SER 1

It wasn't a hand ball because it was unintentional, just like the Kewell handball.

Typical serbs stfu and don't be such sore losers, we just wanted it more then serbia so dont try and take away from our victory with your whinging, petty crap.

should just stfu about the penalty. we had plenty of chances and shouldve been up 3-0 in the first half. i am extremely bummed coz we only needed a goal to progress. and tbh i cried after the match, but thats just passion. but shit happens in football. we gotta turn our attention the euros and restore some national pride. what i hate tho is when people who didnt watch the match, only saw the result, jump to conclusions about what went on. they dont know that we dominated for the most part, and i ended up copping so much shit from school today from such people.

meh. as stated before, antic needs some whine to wash down the south pacific sandwich he's been served within the last month.

Sour grapes from Serbia. That was never a hand ball, and they know it.

They deserved to miss out on the 16.

And if that was in reverse??

This forum who have been full of people saying fuck the ref, serbian cheats etc..

Just saying...

Edited by moxstar: 25/6/2010 02:58:28 AM

For Gyfox:






After re reading the Laws of the Game I am now no longer sure if Kewell's incident was even a penalty.

It also does confirm that Cahill did not give away a penalty.