{"id":2212,"date":"2010-06-20T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2014-06-11T21:39:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T11:39:29","slug":"world-cup-2010-australia-vs-ghana-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2212","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2010: Australia vs Ghana [post match wrap up]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, that was a heartbreaking night.<\/p>\n

I was at the Pig & Whistle in the city with about seven friends.\u00a0 The atmosphere was fantastic in there.\u00a0 Everyone was pumped.\u00a0 There were people wearing Soccerroos, Japan and the Netherland’s colours and everyone had a good feeling about the night ahead.<\/p>\n

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Hope not yet crushed<\/p><\/div>\n

Then, rather surprisingly, England beat Australia in the rugby 21-20<\/strong>.\u00a0 A little bit unexpected but that was okay, I guess.<\/p>\n

Then the Netherlands beat Japan 1-0<\/strong>.\u00a0 A disappointment but not the end of the world since Japan beat Cameroon and have a favourable goal difference against Denmark, so it still wasn’t looking too bad.<\/p>\n

Then when Australia and Ghana came out for the national anthems, we saw the ref was Italian<\/strong>.\u00a0 Surely he would call things right down the middle?<\/p>\n

Then after ten minutes, Brett Holman fired home a goal from close range.\u00a0 We were all:<\/p>\n

F’YEAAAAHHH<\/strong>!!!!!!!!<\/h1>\n

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At that point, we had put the disappointment of the Germany game behind us and we looked to be gaining the momentum we needed to progress through to the next round.<\/p>\n

What could possibly go wrong?<\/em><\/p>\n

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FOILED AGAIN by those goddamned Italians with a dodgy red card for Harry Kewell which killed the game for Australia.\u00a0 The game ended 1-1 and effectively ended the Soccerroos World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n

That night I was haunted by dreams of ROFLing Italians.<\/p>\n

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Football is a cruel sport.<\/p>\n

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Wow, that was a heartbreaking night. I was at the Pig & Whistle in the city with about seven friends.\u00a0 The atmosphere was fantastic in there.\u00a0 Everyone was pumped.\u00a0 There were people wearing Soccerroos, Japan and the Netherland’s colours and everyone had a good feeling about the night ahead. Then, rather surprisingly, England beat Australia …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[199,557,465],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-italy","tag-soccerroos","tag-world-cup-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15614,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/15614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}