Presumably we can expect plenty of Gallagher mouthing off in the coming weeks, given that the Oasis hits album is upcoming. Though the latest ranting from Noel isn't aimed at any of the young aspiring indie bands of the moment or anything like that, as you might expect, rather he's been having a go at the Australian football team. I'm unclear as to whether these comments were unprovoked, or whether he was led onto the topic of the Aussie football team by the interviewer, either way, he's not very impressed by the so called 'socceroos', who famously beat England back in 2003.
Here's what he says on Australia's national side: "Stick to the Aussie rules and the tennis and the cricket and the rugby - you are good at that. Football is the game of the intelligentsia and you are shit at it. You will never win anything so give it up. What do they call them, the Socceroos? Do me a fucking favour, you could come up with a better nickname than that."
More specifically on Tim Cahill, the Australian footballer who plays for Everton, he added: "I would love to kick him right in the bollocks. He has just got one of those faces. Don't you find his face really slappable? I can assure you, lots of people in England do."
In the interest of balance, here's how Aussie blogger Dominic Knight responds: "I haven't always been huge on the Socceroos, but none of us [ie his fellow Aussies] should stand by while our team, who performed so well in Germany, are abused by Noel Gallagher, the man who is responsible for 'Whatever'. I used to love Oasis. I bought 'Definitely Maybe' on a trip to the UK right after doing the HSC, and it became an instant favourite. 'Supersonic' and 'Live Forever' are great songs. But then the band faded into cocaine-fuelled, self-indulgent Beatles pastiche with its second album, 'What's The Story (Morning Glory)', and has then spent the following decade trying to recapture the 'magic' of that bygone era - which seems far from magic ten years later. In short, they're a bunch of has-beens (and no, I don't care that their last album was hailed as a return to form - it was a return to the era when they were slightly less crap than they have been for the past decade), and Noel Gallagher, one of the most self-indulgent musical hacks on the planet, who's always saying moronically arrogant things about his joke of a band, has no place criticising anyone". I think that's us balanced.