16 July 2007 Crunch time for Socceroos

It will be Bangkok, It will be hot, It will be a caudron in the arena with 60,000 baying Thai fans. It has come down to this, the Socceroos needing to win to keep their Asian Cup dreams alive. The Thais need only a draw. Can the star studded Socceroos do it? The weight of history is often against teams who need to win. Cast your minds back to May 2007, when Sydney FC went to Japan to play Urawa Reds, needing a win, Urawa needed a draw. The outcome was 0-0. So that could be it, the big heads in the Socceroos team could well be on the way home tomorrow. But for Australian football's sake, let's hope their star quality rears its head and they achieve the impossible.