Australia’s former deputy prime minister mentioned followers in “every country pub” watched the ladies’s soccer workforce make historical past on the weekend – earlier than sheepishly admitting he watched the improper recreation.
Barnaby Joyce had posted a video on Facebook of himself at a rural New South Wales pub on Saturday evening, with a few dozen individuals sitting behind him watching a soccer recreation on the wall-mounted TV.
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“In Australia tonight, this is what’s happening,” he mentioned to his viewers.
But the red-faced 56-year-old got here clear on Monday morning, admitting to Channel Seven TV that, “I think… we were watching the wrong game”.
“I don’t think it was the right one because when we finished the game, Australia had won 1-0 at full time, but that’s good, we still won.”
Had the gaffe-prone Joyce been watching the correct match, he would have seen the Matildas defeat France 7-6 on penalties after a nail-biting 120 minutes of play, that means they now play England’s Lionesses in Wednesday’s semi-final.
“I know it was an incredible penalty shoot-out, but we went and had dinner because we thought they’d won one-nil at full-time,” Joyce mentioned.
“Whatever was happening, I think it was pretty dodgy — I don’t think (the pub) had paid for their vision or something. But anyway, such is life.”
Joyce, a member of Australia’s centre-right Nationals get together, is maybe best-known for what was dubbed by social media because the “War On Terrier” — the saga involving Boo and Pistol, two Yorkshire Terriers dropped at Australia by Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in 2015.
The couple, now divorced, was accused of not declaring their canine to customs officers, in breach of Australia’s strict biosecurity legal guidelines, after they arrived within the state of Queensland by non-public jet.
Joyce had threatened to have the canine put down, a transfer that resulted in an apology video from Depp and Heard.
In 2017, he a number of different senators had been disqualified from sitting in parliament attributable to a constitutional ban on twin residents — he had unwittingly inherited New Zealand citizenship from his father.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com