Review
Football in Australia operates in a perpetual state of flux, so perhaps it is no surprise that during a campaign when the national team equalled their best-ever showing at a World Cup, the domestic competition was engulfed in yet another existential crisis.
With the country riding the crest of the Socceroos wave in late November, the talk was of the A-League being the beneficiary. Instead, just a week after Argentina lifted the trophy, the APL (the umbrella group that runs the competition), announced the hugely controversial sale of the end-of-season Grand Final to Sydney for a three-year period.
While the domestic game undoubtedly needs the money provided, the A-League (and its predecessor, the
