Peak A-League arrived when the staff at Kardinia Park painted an incorrect penalty area onto the Australian rules football oval before Melbourne Victory hosted Newcastle Jets in January 2017. Broadly, this task is now met with gallows humour, and the shorthand “peak A-League”. Listening to sports radio in Melbourne is to cup a glass to the wall of a church preaching to devout believers in “our great game”, Australian rules football. 2020 vision needed for Australian football as James Johnson era begins | Richard Parkin Read moreChanging the mental shorthand used to decode football in Australia will take decades to bear fruit. We should all aspire to great heights, perhaps even an un-ironic peak A-League.

Source: The Guardian January 13, 2020 01:52 UTC