Will FFA play favourites for A-League Grand Final venue?
The A-League Finals Series is about to commence and the vision splendid of the A-League Grand Final can only be seen live at a venue near you, in either Adelaide or Melbourne. Watching the Victory and Phoenix A-League Premiership decider, as it turned out to be, courtesy of an Archie Thompson 90th minute mishit shot in the direction of Southern Cross Station, Fox Sports football newshound Michael Zappone gave us a scoop. The Telstra Dome is hosting an AFL pre-season game on the same night as the A-League grand final. So what, get on with the game! After the usual annoyance with how an AFL pre-season game has prominence over the A-League Grand Final and the Arse End of The Earth’s domestic climax of the World’s most popular football code, I started to think it might be a small blessing in disguise. A blessing, being treated like second class citizens by the AFL Commissioners again? Well, the next bit of Mr Zappone’s sentence mentioned something about having to play the A-League Grand Fi
