Redington Steele wrote:Even if he's heard from 1 or 2 butthurt representatives of agitating countries, which we have no reason to doubt, I really don't think there would be a groundswell of support for kicking us out based on the spurious reason of "Australia hasn't brought much to the relationship".
In our 9 years of AFC membership we've made the Asian Cup final twice, won the Women's Asian Cup, won the Champions League, produced the AFC player of the year in both Men's and Women's (twice) categories, produced the AFC referee of the year, won the AFC team of the year and hosted both Men's and Women's Asian Cups. Also, our league has featured players from, off the top of my head, Korea, Japan, China, Thailand, Bahrain, Indonesia, Iraq and as of today, Singapore.
Realistically, what more could we have "brought to the relationship" in less than 10 years, apart from being a bit worse at football?
Probably to do with $$$ not sure, what outside of money we have not done.