Midnight Oil

Subject: Re:And we thought Peter had gone soft
From: "Tom Spencer" <tomspencer@eml.cc>
Date: 6/03/2008, 11:45 am
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au

Dear Powdies

One other point - The accusation that the Australians are playing rough
reminds me of the 2006 soccer World Cup.  Australia was about to play
Japan, whose coach remarked that Australians had been playing roughly,
as if the referee should pay extra attention to those awful Australians.
 The former convict colony won 3-1, but not without what many Ozzes saw
as harsh umpiring against us. (See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/4852706.stm)

t