AFL letter raises World Cup concerns

December 8, 2009
By Roger Vaughan
The AFL are concerned a soccer World Cup in Australia could affect their competition for up to two years.

In a letter sent to Football Federation Australia (FFA) chief executive Ben Buckley, AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou wrote of the league's "extreme disappointment" with the information it has received about the Cup bid.

But the FFA have hit back, saying they have met with the AFL more than a dozen times in the last 20 months.

An FFA spokesperson said it was ...

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