Aussies blast coach

Football may be a team game but according to the Australian media there is only one person to blame for Sunday's humiliating 4-0 World Cup loss to Germany - Dutch coach Pim Verbeek. Given the time difference, yesterday was the first opportunity for...

Football may be a team game but according to the Australian media there is only one person to blame for Sunday's humiliating 4-0 World Cup loss to Germany - Dutch coach Pim Verbeek.

Given the time difference, yesterday was the first opportunity for newspapers Down Under to get truly stuck in - and the copy will make unpleasant reading for Verbeek.

"Let down by an erratic Pimbecile - coach well offside with his strategy," headlined Sydney's mass-selling Daily Telegraph, which wheeled out former Australia captain Charlie Yankos to launch a broadside at the trainer.

Yankos, who led the Socceroos 30 times during the 1980s, said Verbeek owed the estimated 10,000 fans who travelled to South Africa an explanation.

"Just because they (Germany) are good on paper doesn't mean we couldn't go out there and make life difficult for them," he said.

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