With the A-League wrapping up, the focus turns to next year (particularly if your club didn’t make the finals) and the old topic of A-League expansion rears its ugly head. Most editorials spell out why each option for a new club is the worst one, particularly advising against handing A-League licenses to cities that were once home to NSL clubs or clubs from earlier A-League expansions. Very few editorials have actually thought about how an expanded A-League might work, and why it should happen. Football Federation Australia has been flat-out over the past two years preparing for the FFA Cup, and creating and administering the Western Sydney Wanderers – a team that put together virtually overnight to fill in the gap left by Clive Palmer’s Gold Coast United. Further expanding the A-League has not been high on their list of priorities, but it’s about time that the subject was given some serious thought again. As the league currently stands there are ten teams, six of whom make the finals. This, some argue, rewards mediocrity. The current state of the A League is based on a combination of trying to please an Australian sporting public hungry for finals, covering the whole [...]