As my colleague Mike Tuckerman wrote earlier this week, Australia’s Asian Cup qualifier in Muscat on Saturday could be a banana skin for the Socceroos and there’s no doubt experienced Oman boss Claude Le Roy will be greasing up his side in the hope of an Aussie slip-up.Le Roy is quite the unforgettable type and he certainly made an impression on Australians last month when Oman came to play the Socceroos in Melbourne.
The 61-year-old Frenchman’s physical appearance alone sparked much debate about his cartoon alter-ego, while some of his comments garnered a fair bit of discussion too.
He began the trip lamenting the fact out of their Asian Cup qualifying group, only his Omani side had to face the Socceroos at full-strength. And they had to do it twice!
And then came the actual match where Oman went down 1-0, despite enjoying the better of the first-half chances and having a stonewall penalty waved away late in the game.
Le Roy clearly wasn’t happy at the post-match conference, where not only did he express his frustration at the result, he also revealed Gary Moretti’s now infamous half-time slur whilst labeling Tim Cahill and Harry Kewell as ‘assistant referees’.
It is fair to say Le Roy didn’t have the best of trips to Australia last month and it would be easy to believe he’d be keen for some form of retribution this weekend.
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