We still don’t know how Australian football’s civil war will end, but we now know Fifa will orchestrate its conclusion. The A-League clubs rammed home this point during a coruscating presentation on Wednesday with grievance after specific grievance attached directly to a Fifa statute. It wasn’t just the A-League clubs who achieved their objectives during a fascinating few days. The Association of Australian Football Clubs, the body representing sides in the National Premier League, is barely 11 months old but is now a bona fide stakeholder at the top table. From the outset this congress expansion project should never have been viewed in binary terms as FFA vs A-League owners.

Source: The Guardian February 22, 2018 23:03 UTC