Branko Culina calls them unAustralian
As Sydney prepare for their massive game against Urawa Reds in Japan on Wednesday evening, (8pm State of Origin time but I'll know where I'll be) Coach Branko Culina has reflected on the lack of coverage of his sides game in Australia.
"130 million people in Japan, 245million in Indonesia and probably the main game, the only game is football."
Yeah we get it Branko, football is big and Asia is huge.
But State of Origin is massive, almost 6 million people live in NSW and Queensland.
Culina said those who chose not to embrace the growing nature of football Down Under were un-Australian and insecure in their code.
"All Australians are sports minded people and if you're not going to accept football you're un-Australian," Culina said.
"These people within other codes - not all of them but a few - they're very insecure because they know that it is only football that is global."
Who are these un-Australians? If you know any let me know and I'll send them pages and pages of material from my blog!
Do you think Australians still fear the round ball game. Surely not. Even in Canberra we have the odd story in the local newspaper and ABC Radio love to call it Soccer.
Have your say. Is football now accepted? Is their enough coverage in the local media?
Does your child's sport get a fair go?
2 comments:
Unfortunately I think it has more to do with the underlying current of racism / machoism in Australian society than fear of the code taking over. As Johnny put it "Sheilas, Wogs and Poofters".
Surely we come along since Johnny's label.
Still hard to get decent coverage in the media but things are improving.
Un-Australian, well I'm not sure what the term means anyway but more importantly it should be a great game tomorrow in Japan.
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