THE following is an open letter to the Queensland State Government - owners and operators of Suncorp Stadium.

Dear Mr/Mrs State Government,

I am a fervent football, or as you most likely still refer to it, soccer fan. I have been attending football matches in Brisbane ever since you were merely student council-level troublemakers.

While you were protesting the lack of vegetarian options at the university cafeteria, I was supporting Queensland representative sides with due parochialism. While you were rejecting dam proposals for votes, I sat in the rain at Perry Park during Brisbane Strikers matches. And, in the past few years, while you yelled across the parliamentary floor safe in the knowledge that it wasn't being filmed, I have had the pleasure of yelling until I was blue in the face on behalf of Queensland Roar FC.

It is in relation to my latest Brisbane-based footballing obsession that I write. For you see, I believe that you hold some form of misguided grudge against my team, and dare I say, football in general.

Specifically, I refer to the fact that you seem insistent upon destroying the financial viability of Brisbane's only team in the A-League. Your steadfast refusal to renegotiate Queensland Roar's tenancy agreement at Suncorp Stadium has me dumbfounded and, without mincing words, more than a tad pissed off.

Granted you have a contractual arrangement with the club, and I strongly believe that a person is only as good as their word. But come on, you are a government. It's not as if you have not broken promises before.

What makes the whole situation more disturbing is that it has been repeatedly reported that the darlings of Brisbane town, the over-sexed and over-hyped Broncos, have a far more favourable rental agreement on the same stadium.

It may surprise you to know that Queensland Roar and Brisbane Broncos share more than a stadium. They both have rather silly nicknames. They are both clad in unflattering colour combinations. They were even both run for a time by John Ribot.

So why are Queensland Roar getting the bum deal? Is it some form of Machiavellian plot to destroy football in Brisbane from a government that has difficulty reading the clocks across the Tweed River, let alone looking across the oceans to see that football is the game of the world?

I grant you that your support of the annual Queensland Roar Against Racism fixture is welcomed. But, if your support was genuine and not just another chardonnay-sipping and purely tokenistic exercise in displaying social consciousness, you would support the team in the only way that matters - by renegotiating the stadium deal.

After all, was it not we the taxpayers that provided the money for you to build this monolithic sports ground? Are we not therefore entitled to expect you to not use it as a cash cow to exploit our, or anyone else's, football club. After all, a stadium is not a toll-road, is it?

If you must make money from Suncorp Stadium, then allow more drug-addled rock stars, scantily clad popettes and over-hyped Dutch violinists to use the stadium for their concerts. Perhaps, this would also alleviate the annoying regularity with which Brisbane is overlooked on their touring schedules.

Thankfully though, we Queensland Roar fans now have an ally on our side of the bargaining table, the Football Federation of Australia. You must now negotiate with one Frank Lowy, who not only loves football but also is adept at the intricacies of playing hardball.

It is my utmost desire that the FFA twist your arm on this matter. You would do well to remember there are World Cup and Asian Cup bids in the works. It would be a shame if your precious little stadium, and the others in your stable on the Gold Coast and in Townsville, missed out during these tourism boosting events.

So, please therefore renegotiate the deal with Queensland Roar FC. Help us in our development as a team and as a code, sure in the knowledge that benefits will return to you as a government. Benefits that will surely outweigh any minor costs incurred by giving the round-ball game a friendly leg up.

With begrudging regards,

Michael Flynn

PS: I am not a crank.