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Viscount Crouchback,
This is typical of the Eurocentric bias FIFA is run on and typical of a Europeans response on Australian Football. I would reccommend you read into the history of Football in Australia, it started off as an ethnic sport and has turned mainstream in the past couple of years, something quite inspiring to say the least.
I love seeing the Aussies get one over against European opposition, we’ve come a long way from the days of ethnic based clubs. Most Europeans laugh at the very thought of an Australian football team, when we beat them it’s like there’s egg on their face. Sounds just like when the Ashes were invented…. the Brits looked down at us, we beat them at their own game and what happened was history. A typical example of Aussies proving a point. That’s why Aussie love the Socceroos.
To have a World Cup in Europe is just another world cup… big deal. Germany 2006 was an example. Yes, the Europeans were happy the tournament on their own backyard, but it in terms of television audience it wasn’t as sucessful as Japan/Korea 2002. It would make great business sense as there are a couple of billion audience in our time zone in prime time and the Europenas won’t be disadvantaged as they can watch at lunchtime. For some of the Brits over here they can start the drinking early and make a day of it. Fair enough Australia is only 21 million, but in terms of World Sport we’re right up there for pretty much everything… this is the last frontier for Aussie sport!
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