Boo-hoo-hoo: You Lost, Get Over It

According to this SMH Report there is a bit of ill feeling towards Australia's status as an Asian Soccer Nation.

The head of Kuwait's Olympic Committee says the membership should be revoked before qualifying starts for the 2010 World Cup or it will "kill Asian soccer."

Sheik Talah al-Fahd Al Sabah, president of the West Asian Games committee, echoed earlier comments by his brother Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, the Olympic Council of Asia president.

"We are against Australia joining the Asian continent, even in soccer," Sheik Talal said.

"This is the biggest mistake made against Asian soccer. This will kill the ambitions of Asian soccer."

Australia was granted membership of the Asian Football Confederation this year after frustrating attempts at getting a direct route to the World Cup through Oceania.

Sheik Talal envisaged no trouble removing Australia from the AFC.

"It is natural to be able to change the decision. A general assembly can annul it the way it approved it," he told a news conference at the ongoing Asian Games in Doha.

"There are general assemblies that can ask them to leave the way they brought them in. I hope this happens before the World Cup qualifications."

The real reason:

MANAMA – Bahrain edged Kuwait for the remaining Group D ticket to the 2007 AFC Asian Cup after defeating their Gulf rivals 2-1 in a hard-fought encounter in Manama on Wednesday.

Two first half goals from skipper Talal Yousuf and Salman Issa put Bahrain in the driving seat and although Faraj Laheeb pulled a goal back with 20 minutes left to play but Kuwait couldn’t find the equaliser to miss out on the Asian Cup finals for the first time since 1972.

Kuwait held the initiative going into the match as they needed only a draw to qualify to next year’s continental finals along with group winners Australia while the home side needed to take all three points.

A victory for Bahrain would put them level with Kuwait on four points but after their 0-0 draw in the previous meeting between the two sides the Bahrainis would qualify with a better head-to-head record.