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Oh yeah, there's a World Cup on! So here's an All-Time Socceroos XI, instead of any topical content.

And by "All-Time", I actually mean all the time Rob's Blog has watched soccer.

And by "Socceroos XI", I definitely mean wearing these jerseys:

BRING THEM BACK!

But before we get to the greatest Australian team ever assembled, I should state that I had planned to write something leading into the World Cup, like a real media outlet would, but in the end my lack of interest in the event overcame my imagined sense of journalistic obligation.

While I'm sure the World Cup will grow on me like a benign tumour over the next month, I have also thought about why I don't care right now.

Is modern soccer too much of a business? Is it ethical reservations about hosting a World Cup in an authoritarian state like Russia? Are Australia just too ordinary?

In the end, I just decided I've reached my capacity for being interested in things. It used to be easy to follow ALL OF THE SPORTS, then I got older and other things have arisen to be interested in... fun things, like my children and all the stuff they do, and also boring things, like paying a mortgage, but they are all important things.

So now I don't follow ALL OF THE SPORTS, just SOME OF THE SPORTS. And soccer has been pushed out of my brain, like that time Homer Simpson took the wine-making course and forgot how to drive.

And so with the excuses out of the way, here is my All-Time Socceroos XI...