The A-League is not in a good place. In truth, it hasn’t been for years now, existing more on the unrequited hope that it will be this new season, this new reform, or this new initiative that restores the glory days of 61,880 filling Stadium Australia for a Sydney derby. And yet the events of the past weeks make it feel like it’s sinking to some new circle of hell.
Three years after an “unbundling” process was completed and it took control of Australian top flight from Football Australia, the private Australian Professional Leagues (APL) moved to make redundant nearly half its workforce, commencing the latest in a long line of upheavals surrounding the league’s viability.
