UNDOUBTEDLY the finest achievement in 40 years of internet development has been the globalisation and democratisation of videos of people getting hurt in amusing ways.

Forty years of manipulating ones and zeros in ever more befuddling ways has culminated in a never-ending parade of Funniest Home Video winners and also rans streamed directly and on demand into our homes, offices and mobile phones. 

People from every corner of the earth attempting one-off stunts that athletes and martial artists train for and practise with the safety of a well padded floor - and failing miserably.  Believe it or not, there are groups that study YouTube bloopers with a view to re-creating or improving the stunt, in the hope of being the next internet sensation. 

After many years of study, the universally accepted rule of YouTube bloopers is that the only way you can make a stunt funnier is to get a cocky, self confident and really fat bloke to do it.

But, no matter how lithe and co-ordinated, the problem with a back flip is that one always ends up going backwards. 

More often, attemptees regain consciousness and find themselves in an uncomfortable, bleeding, drooling, tooth mashing ground-snog while everyone around them laughs and tries to avoid looking at their hopelessly exposed arse. 

But even if you back flip perfectly, you still finish two steps backwards facing exactly the same way that you started.

You might think that somewhere in the three ringed circus that is the Gold Coast United management team, there would be a somewhat capable gymnast. 

Instead, we have copped an eyeful of the biggest and most hopelessly exposed bums in football. 

Were it able to have been captured on a shaky camera-phone and posted on YouTube, it would have undoubtedly surpassed the dancing wedding within a matter of hours. 

Having watched it from a distance though, I still can't make up my mind whether it's slapstick in the grandest form, or the trailer for a 1970's horror movie.  Because it seems that there is only one thing wrong with the FFA's new baby. It's A-CLIVE!!!

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Would Pim Verbeek please shut up about Jason Culina. 

I mean, really, as if the bloke needed any more motivation for the match against Sydney FC.  The guy's just seen his dreams of a triumphant homecoming season as the lynchpin of a fabulously successful new franchise perform an uncomfortable, bleeding, drooling, tooth mashing, arse exposed ground-snog. 

He put his own name and reputation on the line to see as many wrongs righted as possible, while making complete fools of his employers.  

Then, just when Culina succeeded in dragging his club back towards something approaching an acceptable dimension of reality, Pim comes along and says "Hej Jashon, what ze hell ish going on wish your performashes, don't shoo know zer is zis Vorld Cup nextsheer". 

If ever there was a bloke looking for an excuse to cut loose in a football match, it's Jason. 

Excellent.

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Excellent is precisely how I feel about Sydney FC at the moment.  You know why.  Read the reviews.  More of the same will do nicely thanks lads.  It's going to be a great match against Gold Coast on the weekend.