It looks as though Australia,after many years of trying are going to be allowed to leave the Oceana group.They are expecting to be told they will be able to play in the Asia group for future World Cup qualifiers.
As it stands now the group winners from Oceana,have to play off with runners up from another group.In the past they have had to play the likes of Argentina and Uruguay.
Australia have been arguing for years over this.Last time around Australia won ther group without losing a game but still didnt qualify for the finals.In effect there whole campaign rested on a 2 legged tie with Iran as opposed to the league system used in other groups.
This decision comes as a suprise as the other countries in the Asia group have always been opposed to Australias inclusion,
and undoubtly puts extra pressure on the likes of S Korea.
Japan and China when it comes to qualifying.
This has still to be rubber stamped by FIFA but it should be interesting to see what happens.