The book examines a period when football underwent a seismic and
ineradicable change brought about by the determination of the
Victorian Football League to wrest control of the game's
development and destiny from the various state controlling bodies
and the Australian Football Council. Whereas the VFL had initially
been the first among equals, it gradually assumed the role of the
sole and undisputed guardian of the code. The AFC, once football's
ostensible national controlling body, became an irrelevance.
Instead of a national sport with a national remit we ended up with
an expanded VFL with a majority of Victorian member clubs
supplemented by a token sprinkling of teams from interstate. Such
teams were in most cases created from scratch and could in no way
be said to derive directly from the states' unique and distinctive
football traditions and culture. For some, it was a brave new
world, but evolution does not inevitably entail improvement.
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