A-League civil war rolls on

AUSTRALIAN football’s protracted civil war is set to enter volatile territory when A-League clubs and state member federations push their cases to FIFA.

After holding several interviews yesterday with smaller stakeholders, a delegation of top FIFA and Asian officials will wade into the deepening governance dispute that’s engulfed the local game for two years and looks set to continue for many months yet.

Having backed off from threats to replace FFA’s board with a ‘normalisation committee’, FIFA is back in Sydney to force democratic reform.