If you're a follower of the A-League or even read Australian papers you'd know about the stoush between Frank Lowry, billionaire and chairman of Football Federation Australia (the ruling soccer body in Australia) and Clive Palmer, billionaire and owner of Gold Coast united and A-League team. Or should that be former owner of GCU. His licence was revoked after a couple of breaches-
You can read about it here:
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/Buckley-releases-statement-on-Clive-Palmer/45828
This is all really sad and I'm sure it can't have been an easy decision for Frank Lowry to make but the way the situation has turned out there's not much more he could do.
Gold Coast have worn shirts proclaiming "Free speech" in a match against an FFA directive, play to no crowds at Skilled stadium, fired their coach or he left after he disagreed with a promotion of a 17 year old to captaincy on the owner Clive's orders. Clive Palmer since then has launched a stinging attack on Frank Lowry, the running of the game and even launched his own organisation called Football Australia and has allegedly been trying to recruit players to form a "rebel league".
Now Clive Palmer's worth $5 billion so I'm sure he can do what he wants, get flown in a helicopter where ever he wants, owner a pet elephant or launch a campaign against a government looking to share some of the wealth himself and Gina Reinhart are acquiring from Australia's natural resources (though I do accept mining is a high risk high investment industry okay just to get that one out of the way).
But in regards to Gold Coast, Mr Palmer please stop it, don't take this to court. You haven't won. It's not good for the game for this to continue being news, so in the interest of the game please stop.
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