Socceroos!

Congratulations to Australia, who will appear in a Word Cup for the first time since 1974 next year.

Having finally won a two-leg tie with Uruguay, I doubt many will fancy drawing a team featuring the likes of Cahill, Viduka, Kewell and Schwarzer.

The Socceroos aren’t going to be short of underdog company either, with Angola, Togo, The Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ecuador and Iran joining them, with either Bahrain or Trinidad coming as well.

The World Cup usually throws up some great mis-matches (and often some great shocks), but in terms of Global representation, this must be the best looking World Cup in a long time, and that ultimately is what it’s all about, even if the games money men would have it otherwise.

Let’s hope the likes of Angola et al do more than just make up the numbers. I’m sure they will.