THE GFA will vigorously defend key elements of their again under-fire four-year plan at next week’s annual meeting of the association.

That will mean a rough ride and possible rejection for some of the proposals which came out of the recent island-wide club meeting which upset the GFA hierarchy and sparked talk of a split between GFA and clubs on the issue of who is exactly running the domestic game locally.

Mark Le Tissier, the GFA chairman (pictured), has even suggested that perhaps the time has come for the association to run representative football and the development of the game, while allowing clubs to get on with operating domestic league and competition.

Whether that was an idle threat remains to be seen but while the GFA are running the leagues it seems they are not prepared to move on issues affecting the development leagues and, specifically, the under-21 and under-18 leagues.

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