A-Leagues look past Man City distraction to ‘showpiece’ Melb derby theguardian.com/football/202… Two Carnegie quotes from this CFG promotion piece. I say that knowing @jacksongs is a good journo. "What we need is for people to come along and support, and then it will snowball from there.” "This is a really good opportunity for us to get people in to see what we’re all about, and then hopefully, we can convert them into people who are coming to other games” How to do things back to front and leave out the rest of the clubs and fans while these champs, given ownership of tier 1 and control of the tiers below, lament that all they need is fans (!), who must surely turn up at some point, and happily change models until they make some cash. No need to seek the view or @FootballAUS ofcourse. It gave away our top tier like it was its to give. Nope, leave us at the mercy of for profit, private owners, including the most guilty of ⚽️ guilty - they can "look past" that after all since since they is them who own it. So, the rest of us need to look after ourselves too since we've been cast adrift. @AAFClubs @FSAAustralia

Promotion / Relegation soccer is finally coming to America Starting January of next year, the USL will start its first season with a pyramid structure between its 3 leagues, USL Premier (Division One), USL Championship (Division Two), and USL League One (Division Three), allowing the best performing teams to move their way up in place of teams that finish at the bottom of the league above them Exciting, no doubt about it. A lot of risk being taken here by those involved, but it should be interesting at the very least to see how the stakes at hand impact the product on the field and the excitement level of each match