THE prospect of a breakaway A-League competition managed and run by the owners of the existing clubs is not as fanciful as the FFA might think.

After years of significant losses, some as much as $6 million each year by individual club owners, and A-League annual accumulated losses in excess of $28 million, understandably owners are running out of patience. For now it's all about control by the FFA and the fear that it might lose something, even though by holding on to the A-League it will eventually kill it off.

Archie Fraser says it is not a new concept for a structure appointed by the club owners to manage and run the professional league in a country. Credit:Darren Pateman

It is not a new concept for a structure appointed by the club owners to manage and run the professional league in a country.

After all, the English Premier League was founded on the same premise, where the clubs took over the running of the old League Division 1 from the Football League to form the EPL.