The manager of the NSW pub where Barnaby Joyce and about 80 others watched the wrong Matildas game on Saturday night has explained how the mix-up occurred.
The crowd at the Commercial Hotel in Walcha were cheering along the Matildas with the rest of Australia on Saturday night, but they were watching a match played before the World Cup started, instead of the competition's quarter final.READ MORE:
Kristian Schmidt from the Commercial Hotel ha this morning told Ben Fordham on 2GB that he did not realise they were watching the wrong match until Sunday afternoon when other people were talking about Saturday's penalty shootout.Schmidt said he had just assumed the match he had found on the television was the right one."And I just found what I thought was the game on the TV."
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