Dwight Yorke's 'pub team' spray before departing as head coach of A-League side Macarthur FC has seen the Manchester United legend become a major talking point with many soccer fans in Australia.
But Yorke is far from alone - plenty of prominent identities in the world game have publicly unloaded on the national competition in recent years.
Be it the late former Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek or goalkeeper Zeljko Kalac, criticism of the struggling competition has been constant in some quarters.
Even Graham Arnold, who performed a sporting miracle by guiding Australia through to the round of 16 - in a squad featuring A-League players - at the World Cup in Qatar, hasn't minced his words previously when it came to the 12-team competition.