Amid cricket's ongoing dispute and recent coverage of pay deals in the NRL and AFL, it's easy to overlook the fact soccer is having its own boardroom dramas.
It can even be hard for soccer fans to be completely across the impasse on the Football Federation Australia (FFA) Congress, which has carried on for months, given plenty of the attention has also been focused on A-League expansion, a national second division and the recent free-to-air TV coverage announcement.
But now the world governing body could turn the sport in Australia on its head in the coming months.
FIFA is set to get directly involved in the dispute and could even rip apart the FFA board before the end of the year.
Right, let's start from the top. The Congress helps decide how the sport is run across the country.
It elects the members of the FFA board to three-year terms and approves changes to its constitution. Think of it as the FFA's equivalent of the AFL Commission.
State and territory associations, as they have for many years, still wield a lot of power. They have nine (NSW is split into two) of the 10 seats on the current FFA Congress.
All parties agree this overall number needs to expand. In fact, the number of seats of similar bodies overseas run into the hundreds.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there isn't a consensus on how expansion should happen. Both the FFA and A-League clubs (through the Australian Professional Football Clubs Association) say they want to see fair representation on the Congress, but disagree on what that looks like.
FIFA would like to see various stakeholders represented on the Congress, such as women's soccer, futsal, referees, etc.
State and territory associations would argue they look after all these stakeholders in their respective areas and don't want to see their own power diluted.
The A-League clubs want a greater say in how the game is run, with one eye on an independent competition.
An FFA proposal rejected by FIFA would have increased the Congress from 10 seats to 13, giving A-League clubs three (up from one) and one to the Professional Footballers Association (PFA).
It would have also involved a second stage where all the groups would come together to decide how the Congress should expand again in the future.
The FFA says its proposal was supported by 80 per cent of members (being eight of the 10 seats, but rejected by the clubs and Football NSW), enough for the resolution to pass.
But FIFA's Member Associations Committee said the process, "does not reflect an appropriate representation of all stakeholders".What happens now?
The issue is set to heat up later this month, when a joint FIFA/AFC (Asian Football Confederation) "mission" comes to Australia to get the parties to come to an agreement.
In a statement released by the FFA on Thursday night, chairman Steven Lowy said: "We look forward to working with FIFA and AFC representatives over the coming weeks."
"As I said in March, FFA wants to see an expanded Congress for Australia that reflects the way the game is evolving in this country but also protects and promotes the interests of the whole of the game."
Mark down November in your calendars.
There first needs to be an Emergency General Meeting (EGM) to get the expanded Congress passed. Then an Annual General Meeting (AGM) is needed by the end of that month, that will also vote on two FFA board positions.
Perhaps even more importantly, FIFA's Member Associations Committee says if an acceptable expansion of Congress was not in place by November 30 it will recommend a "normalisation committee" intervenes.
It doesn't sound like the sexiest of phrases, but it had newspapers and websites frothing over the past few days.
Words like "overthrow" have been used, with Argentina and Guinea cited as recent examples of when FIFA have had to directly intervene.
In the case of Argentina, the normalisation committee was tasked with being "in charge of running the daily affairs of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), (and) revising the AFA statutes".
FIFA could disband the FFA board, set up an interim one until the Congress issue is resolved and then set up a new board.
For a sport that has stymied its own growth in the past because of poor governance, it is the very last thing it needs.
But if Congress expansion isn't settled soon, Australian soccer could be kicking another own goal.