Fozz' World Cup Send Off
Posted Dec 19, 2022, 1:09 PM UTC
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Every time I see that clip of Irvine saying he hopes he made everyone proud I start crying I swear
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Honestly it felt like Foz was tearing up when he quoted Johnny Warren.
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I was so proud of them. The played well and won games which is incredible, but I am proud because of how they fought for each other and for the country. They gave everything and came a bees dick from taking Argentina into extra time.
The thing we have that no other country has is that we are Australian. This team was built on belief and Aussie grit and determination. The brotherhood that these players had and the fighting spirit that they showed is what made me proud.
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This guy Australias!
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The two worst world cups in terms of coverage are 2002 with half of it on channel 9 and 2018 with Optus putting most of it behind a paywall and monumentally fucking it up. Nobody in this country does football and especially the World Cup better than SBS and if anyone gets the rights to 2026 and beyond it’ll be a crime against the sport.
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What was bad about the Channel 9 coverage? I thought they did a good job. Even though they didn't have as deep of roster of pundits as SBS (they only had Andy Harper and Graham Arnold) they didn't disrespect the sport by playing ads during live play like 7 or 10.
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From memory, Nine cherrypicked the games they wanted to show and had no intention of showing all matches. SBS only came into the picture late in the game to show the matches that Nine didn't want.
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SBS brilliant coverage of world cup
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The sbs coverage was virtually faultless throughout, as always. If that doesn't win the logie for best sports coverage of the year then it is only systemic bias stopping it.
Its one of those "thank God" moments every 4 years when you find out that they have the rights again.
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No one does football like SBS. Only slight is Martin Tyler was a dull choice - I'd have preferred the BBC/ITV or world feed commentators, but that could just be a rights issue
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Surprised that he would say there isn’t another World Cup for four more years when the women’s World Cup is in Australia next year.
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Yeah I kind of think there was a bit of a blind spot on this across the whole coverage but wondering who has the rights to next years World Cup and is it not sbs ??
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There is very well that chance. 7 is the rights holder for next year’s World Cup.
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Im surprised you think the womens world cup rates a mention when talking about the mens world cup
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I just thought that with a World Cup on home soil it could have been a nice reminder. Also I thought SBS would have been politically correct enough to mention that there would be a World Cup next year
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All class this guy
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Foz with a great piece to end SBS world cup coverage. At a time when alot of football fans might feel despondent or hopeless after the antics of the APL and OSM in the past week i thought it was great to remember how far we came as a football nation in this world cup and what we can still look forward to.
I got this feeling of sadness from it, felt like it would be SBS' last cup send off.
I didn't pick up on it till I watched it again. Who knows what will happen in 4 years time but SBS proven track record has got to count for something.
Yeah but budget cuts are what’s going to impact them more
I'm probably reading too much into it but all the references to The World Game throughout the entire month, when they're not actually TWG anymore but just SBS Sport, felt like part of a final sign off.
It likely will be Football has become to Mainstream for SBS
I long for the simpler times, when the burning question was whether we were pro- or anti-Arnie.
We officially came 11th in this world cup. If you had told me before the world cup we would come 11th I would've laughed. The challenge now is to keep the momentum going and do really well at the Asian cup as well. I wonder what Arnie is going to do, stay on or go, I have a feeling it is his choice now what he decides to do.