No necessairly a priority, but it should be an inevitability. Women's football is growing everywhere. I think Australia has the potential for a very successful pro women's league

Possible, but it would take a long time. The US collegiate system is more than 200 years old, and collegiate sports more than 150 years old. Americans have a strong sense of identity with their local college team. Nowehere in the world has been able to create anything on that scale.

So I wanted to write about some of the economic ideas I'd been working on because I thought they had wider applicability, but I also knew that journalists are generally better writers than academics, and Simon was/is the nest football journalists. So I ambushed him at a conference and whined...

For the typical fan the only option is public protest - look how the English fans killed the European Superleague. Competition laws can work against leagues that engage in monopolistic abuses, but it's difficult to challenge federations - judges don't like to second guess their decisions.