Pim Verbeek: I salute you.

I loved Pim singing the national anthem on Fox Sports tonight and I've loved the openness of the guy throughout the campaign.

Pim's got us to the World Cup through Asia. He's planned it right and got the maximum out of our players. Brilliant.

It's great to have a leader of the national team who you can admire, and for me, you might not always agree with his tactics, but he's got a certain dignity, a certain sincerity and he takes no crap from the immature Aussie sports media.

Go get em Pim.