Constitution

A Major Hick-Up

Football, and many other sports clubs at all levels have always been about communities. Many historically represent a community. In Europe they have represented a town or a city, whereas in Australia many were built up by migrant communities and

Why Reading and Learning Is Vital

It is an old joke that men never read instructions. Yet the joke is not so amusing when it affects others. With a large percentage of football club presidents still being male that may be why some ,or their representatives

Rolling the Dice

Some of the international sporting federations have a clause in the membership of the member nations that Governments cannot interfere with the running of their sport. As we know with FIFA and the IOC, they believe that they are the

You Cannot Put a Price on Integrity

Transparency and integrity are words that are frequently bandied about in the modern sporting world. Words that decades ago rarely needed to be mentioned, as at that time it was accepted by all that the majority in sport played and

Grounds For Concern

Football in Australia has for decades had a history of shooting itself in the foot. The Crawford Report was supposed to change all of that, but unfortunately the more things change the more they stay the same. Why is this?