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Message: [QUOTE="Astroboy, post: 2311098, member: 1994"] This is why Australia doesn't do well at soccer and Austrailans just don't dig soccer as much as some other games, because it's so against all the Australian sporting ideals. Standing up for your mates, physical strength, fighting for each other, playing hard, playing through pain, asking and giving no quarter, and being true and fair dinkum are never celebrated in soccer - having those qualities is only punished by opponents who gain an advantage by exaggerating pain (diving, staying down etc) and other forms of cheating and refs who will produce a red card at any sign of a physical contest - unless of course you're playing for one of the highly fancied teams. That's the other thing - Aussies love the underdog but when the "favourite" is always the beneficiary of favouritISM, that doesn't go down too well. There's a classic Aussie word that best sums up FIFA and their attitude to just about anything - the one word name for male cattle manure. [/QUOTE]

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