Socceroos 2 - Bahrain 0

It was nice just to get a win after last Saturday's 1-1 draw with Paraguay due to a late-game own goal. (Such a debacle would never have happened under Guus!)

CM, AM, PB2 and I were among the 36,000 there at Aussie Stadium to see it, clad in green'n'gold, fortified with Thai food and nursing our plastic cups of Vile Brew.

I thought all the Socceroos squad played OK, with John Aloisi and Marco Bresciano knocking in our two goals and Mile Sterjovski being unlucky not to make it 3-0.

Bahrain, on the other hand... Well, they had their chances, thanks mainly to the efforts of #28 and #52, but were generally too busy spoiling and wasting time.

I know they only sent over the reserve side, that they were playing in front of a partisan crowd and that the weather/pitch/facilities might not have suited. But...

I haven't seen such a bunch of diving, injury-faking, shirt-tugging, dodgy-tackling players since the lads and I went to Oz's "friendly" against Turkey in 2004.

They deserved to lose 10-0.