Gerard Waitley

So despite being encouraged to weigh in, you go, just let's sit here because the backflip will be rapid and spectacular.

Sam Edmund is here for Alex Scott and staff to sell your livestock and sell your home.

Hello, Sam.

Gerard, let's talk Federation Square, Melbourne CBD.

Now, they've been packing out Fed Square for Socceroos games since 2006.

20 years we've had some iconic scenes at Federation Square.

Heck, I was there in 2006.

Some of the best nights of my life crammed in there with 10,000 strangers and the raucous celebration.

So...

The decision from the Melbourne Arts Precinct, as you've just touched on there, to ban live sites.

To not show it.

To not show it.

So, therefore, no live sites.

So, therefore, no one attends has been met with all sorts of scathing criticism.

Football Australia last night released a statement.

Now, they called on the Victorian government to overturn the ban, as they called it.

Sam Kerr called it an absolute disgrace from the other side of the world.

Craig Foster said it was ridiculous.

And they all lined up to give it a good hard kicking.

Pardon the pun.