IT was a team performance to be proud of, a close-knit unit covering every blade of grass in pursuit of glory for Australia at the World Cup.

No stone is being left unturned in making sure Ange Postecoglou’s Brazil-bound squad feel the part - and look it. On the night of the Socceroos’ qualification for the World Cup in June, a bunch of celebrities from Hugh Jackman to Shane Warne tweeted their delight - now their words will quite literally feed into clothing the Australian squad in Brazil.

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Rather improbably, each tweet was reproduced in grass on a farm deep in NSW, where a flock of some 100 Merino sheep today were let loose to munch their way through a diet of landscaped hashtags. This is grassroots sport, but not as you know it.

The sheep’s wool will shortly be sheared, and turned into the suits to be worn by the Socceroos on the way to the World Cup, made by tailor MJ Bale.

To give the sheep a due sense of national pride in their work, they were honoured not just by a rendition of Advance Australia Fair, but also the presence of former Socceroo Mark Bosnich.

Now the only question left to answer is whether Australia, facing world champions Spain and heavyweights Chile and Holland, will ultimately prove to be lambs to the slaughter.News_Image_File: Sheep dining out on famous Tweets.