Robert Craddock

Real Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan, superstars of the game.

I was at a function yesterday, Gerard, with a lot of real diehard soccer fans, and they were the ones who were really giving credit.

They were saying, hey, this is the biggest moment in Australian soccer history.

This is outstanding.

You know, I think Australia were $4.50 to win, but once again –

If you get them fit and you just release them and he's gone, Tony Popovich, with youth, it's a great gamble.

You know, if you're going to gamble on anyone, gamble on youth who have a fearlessness about them, that, you know, they can just jump in and do things that you don't think they can do.

And the one, two, three punch was just too much.

And I love Roy Keane's commentary, you know, the old former man, you know, on a captain hard nut, you know what I mean, seen a million games.

And he said, I've seen this before.

He said one team turned up and by the time they got there, they'd convinced themselves this was going to be a walk in the park, an easy game.

And the other team turned up just expecting nothing.

We're just going to fight like dogs here.

And he said, you could just see it from the first five, ten minutes.

And, you know, it was not just a beautiful result for the Australian game, but a lesson that flows beyond soccer, Gerard, into any team at any time.

Be hungry, be desperate, blood the kids.

Oh, yeah.

I think it multiplies interest by literally a multiple of two almost because you could feel the electric pulse in the coverage that came down within an hour of it.

Like it was dominating every newspaper site in Australia.

I looked at the numbers which our soccer reporters –