Australia focuses on the main game
If you see people walking around Canberra with huge smiles on their faces this week there's a fair chance they are heading to Sydney for the World Cup Qualifier against Uzbekistan on Wednesday.
The League has started (not for the Raiders), the AFL is running hot...(in Melbourne), the Super 14 continues (in other countries) but this is the game I've been waiting for...the rest merely a news item...and a depressing one at that as Canberra teams keep losing!
But an increasing number of Canberrans are excitedly telling me they are going on Wednesday and "can't wait," seems to be the general concensus.
I'm not going. But isn't it great to have so much competitive football. For a country so long starved of any real national football, the important games are coming thick and fast.
And if we beat Uzbekistan we are as good as off to South Africa.
And then I guess we'll all be smiling on Thursday...even those of us who didn't get to go.
World Cup Qualifier, points at stake, Uzbekistan desperate for a result, Aussies in dreamland if we win....Bring it on!
1 comment:
i realised this morning, with recent news my partner is expecting some time late in sept, that my child will likely be born into a world where australia top their regional qualifing group - nothing too different from its old man there - but automatically qualifying for the world cup finals!
nice. uzi uzi uzi oi oi eh? i rekkun we'll score two and keep them out. interested to read your impressions of the game in the next days, eamonn...
; )
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