Crawford report

Are the answers Football Australia is looking for in the Crawford Report?

For those who remember football in Australia before the turn of the century, when the Crawford Report was published in 2003 there was optimism that football was finally going put aside petty power struggles, be run properly, and the game

The A-League – A Time To Reflect and Change?

‘What has gone wrong with the A-League?’ This was a question posed at a dinner table on the weekend. The person who posed the question had recently read the article “A-League Audience Figures Fall To Alarming New Lows on Channel

Time to Restore the Trust With Transparency

It was in December 2015 that the sporting world woke up to hear that law enforcement authorities had swooped and arrested many of the top officials in FIFA. Charges were laid against 18 individuals from 12 different countries. Those arrested

Is It Time To Re-Model the A-League?

When the A-League was created the newly formed Football Federation of Australia went away from many of the recommendations of the Crawford Report. Fifteen years on and with a great deal of hindsight it would appear that some of those

No Winners in Blame Game

United we stand, divided we fall. if only there was more of the United we stand in football. Is there a correlation between the standard of the game locally and the dawn of social media? Or is it more aligned