Australia v Peru: Socceroos win World Cup 2022 qualifying playoff 5-4 on penalties – as it happened

Arnold is being interviewed now and he’s speechless for the first few seconds.

“I’m just… So proud of the players, you know? No one knows what those boys have been through to get to here,” he says. “It was so hard, the whole campaign, and the way they’ve stuck at it and committed themselves to it, incredible.

“Andrew Redmayne is a very good penalty saver, and to try to get him on the mental aspect while we were making that change, to add that bit of uncertainty in their brains, that was, yeah, that is the reason.”

He says he called for Australia’s new prime minister Anthony Albanese to give the country a day off. This is from a man who was at risk of being sacked in March, and who has faced dogged criticism.

“The doubters don’t bother me, it is these boys I care for, the game I care for,” he says. “I do it for my family and I want to dedicate this one to my brother, Colin. When my parents died when I was young, I didn’t have anyone really to support. My older brother has been that my whole life, and he is No 1.”