While Ali Tareen’s Multan Sultans franchise may have ended on a bitter note with the Pakistan Cricket Board and the Pakistan Super League, his surprise bid for the proposed new football league under the Pakistan Football Federation could prove to be a welcome injection of fresh thinking into a stagnant system. Such an approach has the potential to revive football in a country that boasts immense viewership and interest in the sport but suffers from chronically weak institutional support. Previous attempts at organising a football league relied on an outdated, institutional and departmental team format. By contrast, the ideas reportedly associated with Ali Tareen’s bid 

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