Yayhill

The worldcup is on and Australia have qualified for the first time in like a bajillion years. The thing is we've never even scored in a finals match. We played Japan tonight who are ranked like 14th and we're ranked about 86th. Japan scored a pretty lame goal in the 24th minute by fouling our keeper. You could tell that if we lost there would be a lot of bitterness in Australia over that one. I was in agony for the next hour before Australia drew level with a goal from my baby Tim Cahill. It was a bit of a scrappy goal but in the next eight minutes we scored two more goals and they were both worldclass. The best thing about the game (aside from winning of course) was that we played like a proper side. We proved that we could play against a good side and we could play good football.

We don't expect much from our game against Brazil of course, but I'm hoping we won't underestimate Croatia. They are a good side and they've had a good lead-up campaign.

Edit: All the ranking stuff I said is probably wrong, I have no idea. The television tells me one thing and the internets tells me another. Very confusing.