Peter FitzSimons: Win in Honduras would live in history

By Peter Fitzsimons
Updated November 11 2017 - 12:38am, first published 12:33am

Yes, yes, yes, I know.
Dusting off the old rah-rah speeches from Wallabies' dressing rooms circa 1980s and trying to apply them to super-sophisticated Socceroos in 2017, just before they take on the might of Honduras, is a tad presumptuous. It may well be like using a horse-and-cart, while they have a Maserati, ready to go. But I can't resist ...
Come on, you bastards!
Don't be intimidated by the roar of the locals even now making our dressing-room shudder and shake. USE it! Soak it up!
Their roar is a challenge to us, and we Australians are good at challenges, most particularly when we are PISSED OFF! Think the Rum Rebellion! Think Eureka! Think Gallipoli! Think being the first to stop the Germans and the Japanese in World War II! Think beating the Hondurans, in Honduras, on Saturday 11 November, 2017, a day that will live in history if we pull it off!
We know they think we are unsophisticated hicks, with no real idea how to play soccer. Fine. Let's see how their fancy footwork goes up against Aussie KNUCKLE. (Sorry, sorry, that is too much rugby, I take it back. Wont' work.)
This is dinkum it, you blokes. Win, lose or draw, we have to come off the pitch with nothing left in us, with the tanks completely empty. We are Australians, and we can do this!
Something like that, anyway.

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