19-08-2023, 21:12
He doesn't usually attend major men's finals in other countries, does he? (If there's pics of him swanning round Doha last year or Moscow in 2018 I'll happily stand corrected.) He's not president of the Australian FA, so there's no reason he should have booked a seat in advance, and though I'm sympathetic to the argument he could have cleared his schedule and jumped on a plane when the Lionesses won their semi, you know the same people slating him for not going would have been slating him for destroying the planet with jet fumes if he had done.
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