i am a one eyed football supporter for the little that it's worth and i agree fully with hesperian and yellowmonkey we aren't a strong national football nation not only are the fifa rankings a bit of a sham as pointed out by yellowmonkey himself and not only is there no solid bank of references to consider our relative football ability and historical strength to be on par with that of cricket netball etc but the massive skill and historical disparity between australia and the likes of spain brazil england etc and the relatively poor standard of the a league and its lack of history means that football should not be added alongside cricket etc in the main article