Women’s World Cup 2023: Three months after their best ever result at a World Cup, the Matildas went on strike

Negotiations with the governing body, known as FFA at the time, over a new collective bargaining agreement had been ongoing for months and quickly broke down upon their return.

At the time, then FFA chief executive David Gallop accused the Professional Footballers Association of dragging the Matildas into a dispute he said was primarily about A-League funding and its salary cap, as the men’s competition bled money. The FFA, he argued, had provided a revenue share proposal to the PFA, and…