Mum, is that the Young Matildas?
"Who's that," said the young girl watching the team in Australian colours fighting the team in Chinese colours on the telly.
"That's the Matildas," replied the Mum.
Well I saw my friend Tom Sermanni defending the Young Matildas and I know some of the shenanigans that have gone on in games against the Chinese and North Koreans in the past but what the team did in response to a player allegedly being tripped, debatable from the footage in my opinion, what the player and team did is....
a disgrace.
No if's, no buts.
I'm sure there will be howls from those in the know, about how they were treated by the other teams, the other fans, even the referee. But it don't make it right does it?
Not for Australian national teams.
What provcation on a sporting field leads to this sort of rubbish. It might be acceptable to Australians in State Of Origin or AFL but in my view football, men and women's doesn't need it. Not at a National level of Division 9 level.
Our leaders have to balance between building team unity, support etc and out and out thuggery.
One Australian girl had her eyes opened that night.
And it was noted we lost the game!