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Barnaby Joyce admits watching wrong Matildas game after pub showed July friendly
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Then spare a thought for the former Australian deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, who has revealed he watched the wrong Matildas World Cup match over the weekend.
As the entire country was holding its breath watching the Matildas win an agonising penalty shootout against France, the Nationals MP was celebrating what he thought was an easy victory.
At 7pm on Saturday night, around the time the Matildas were heading into extra time after 90 tense, goalless minutes, Joyce posted a video to Facebook from the pub he was at, declaring that “in every country pub, city club, suburban home they are doing this tonight.
“In Australia tonight, this is what’s happening,” Joyce says in the video, before panning the camera to show a group of people at a pub watching the wrong match.
In a TV appearance on Monday, Joyce admitted he’d watched the wrong match, saying he went off for dinner because he thought the Matildas had won 1-0.
“I know it was an incredible penalty shootout which we never [saw] – we went and had dinner because we thought they’d won 1-0,” Joyce told host Natalie Barr.
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