The stars are aligning

A nice rant on the Australia v Uruguay play off by (my mate) Andrew Dahdal...

Well my Friends,

Its been a week of intrigue.

First - Uruguan officials complained about the fact that a trio of belgium refs would be officiating the return leg in sydney, as this might be biased because belgium is neighbours with Holland - the nationality of coach Guus hiddink - bit of stretch. FIFA flately refused to hear anything about it!!! Good on you FIFA, you uncorruptable icon of all that is fair and just.

Well, as this complaint was being made a certain spanish ref sent off 2 players from a turkich club fenabache in the UEFA Cup. This same spansih ref was meant to ref the Turkey/Switzerland world cap playoff in 2 weeks. "Fearing for his safety" FIFA decided to switch his game, appointing the Spanish refs to the Australia/Uruguay Games. For those who dont know THE LANGUAGE OF URUGUAY IS SPANISH!!!!!!!!!! If its biased to have refs from countries that neighbour coaches countries.....how about refs that share direct lingual and cultural ties with one of the teams. In the off field battle Urugay has out witted us again. FIFA is addiment that they have not made the decision based on any Uruguan pressure or requests. Fucking FIFA corrupt bastards. The only reason Australia has to be in a playoff in the first place is because south America didnt like losing half a spot in the qualifiers.....What about CONCACAF (Nth and central America) they get 3 and a half spots for like 7 teams!!!!! - that means we will have either trinidad and tobago or Bahrain in the world cup but potentially not Australia or Uruguay. GO FIGURE!!!

In more Uruguian treachery - they have requested for a second time that the kick of time for the first leg be changed again. They first went from 5pm to 9pm in hope of getting Australia to miss their return flight to Sydney - we'll MR John ONeil and his corporate buddies are on top of it. QANTAS has agreed to charter a flight for the socceroos out of Montevideo shortly after the end of the match. About time corportate Australia started to pull its own weight (yeah i know its all good PR for QANTAS and im helping the whole thing by plugging them - but im just glad!). Well this ploy is perhaps going to backfire. Urguay is now struggling to find a flight to sydney after the game and they want to change the match back to 5pm. Ofcourse FIFA wont allow it. Or will theyu. Shit i wouldnt be suprised if Australia shows up to the Stadio Centario and are told sorry u missed the game and you lost 6-2 - you better hurry up the first half has alreay kicked off in sydney.....stoopid FIFA.

Australia has set up base in Argentina. Argentina being the arch nemisis of Uruguy they were more than happy to oblige. It kind of reminds me of Rocky 3 where Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers - the former enemy of rocky - klike argentina in 93 for australia) turns around and helps their former foe to overcome an even dirtier and more insiduious villian.

Looking at the form Guide - Viduka has hit top gear with a double for Borough in the UEFA cup 3-1 win over a Ukrainian opponent. KEwel is making some appearances for Liverpool and was said to have set up a goal for Cisse in the Champions league - although on seeing it - it looked more like a miskick - we'll take anything as long as it leads to a goal against.

As for Uruguay - Diego Forlan has ripped a calf muslce and is said to miss the playoffs. i was so happy when i heard that - and not even feeling guilty for being happy and a fellow humans misfortune - i messaged every friend i could to rejoice. Them my brother told me that ive been suckered.....do we all remember Dario Silva's supposed injury for the first leg last time - then he shat on us the in the second leg - could a similar conspiracy be brewing here. The smart money is on Forlan making a miraculous recovery for the second leg in sydney. Nevertheless his club is the one that announced his injury and even said that he might not be available even for the Man U champions league game they have on the 22nd. Go Figure?! I had another one of my Urugauy dreams last night......same as some of my friends and family have been having ......in this one i saw Guus as a casual teacher at my old school and i rushed over to him and he thought i wanted to shake his hand but i slapped it away and screamed something like "DONT YOU KNOW FORLAN IS FAKING"......needless to say i had to dragged away from him and woke up a bit unsettled.

All in all the stars are slowly aligning .......lets home the southern cross is able to out shine a brilliant Uruguanian sun!!!!

Stay tuned.......

Can't wait.