Published: October 18, 2018
With a propensity towards doom and gloom, Australian football needs an occasional narrative reset
Like the ancient serpent ouroboros, Australian football has a seemingly infinite capacity for auto-cannibalism. With a grassroots participation base that is the envy of any other Australian code, average attendances that place the A-League in the top 20 domestic competitions across the globe, and a level of corporate investment that increasingly underwrites financial stability, the game, from certain vantage points, has never looked more robust.
And yet, under the constant clouds of an ever more enervating three-year descent into civil war, season 13 of the A-League became the perfect example of this tendency.
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