Andrew Demetriou

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• Demetriou ridiculed for the good of his sport

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 459
  I was in Melbourne this week when AFL chief Andrew Demetriou launched his anti-World Cup campaign to the astonishment of most. I suspect had I been in London, or Barcelona, or Istanbul, or Rio or Buenos Aires, I wouldn’t have heard about it at all. I think Demetriou may well come to appreciate this, because less ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do we actually deserve to host a Football World Cup?

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 459
  That many of football and Aussie Rules’ staunchest supporters have never seen eye-to-eye goes without saying. But the schism that has now formed between two former team-mates, Ben Buckley and Andrew Demetriou, is a sad indictment of the polarised sporting landscape in Australia. Buckley was best man at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Demetriou was right to question World Cup impact

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 459
  Andrew Demetriou’s comments on Monday, in which he said an AFL season could be under threat if Australia is successful in its World Cup bid, have caused quite a stir. Some out there are even starting to think Demetriou is plotting to bring down the bid. Or that he’s merely an insular, narrow-minded fool. Or ...
  3 weeks ago

• World Cup could affect AFL competition for two years

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 459
  The AFL are concerned a football World Cup in Australia could affect their competition for up to two years. In a letter sent to FFA chief executive Ben Buckley, 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, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fear and loathing is ruling Australian sports

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 459
  “World Game? What a joke! World Cup? Leave it to the English, Italians and the rest of them,” claimed Albert of Melbourne on the Herald Sun website, one of the thousand plus hateful comments that littered sites across the web following the AFL’s claim that they will lose a season if there was an Australian ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ben Buckley moves to ease AFL, NRL concerns

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 459
  Fresh from greasing the wheels of Australia’s World Cup bid with powerbrokers in South Africa, Football Federation Australia boss Ben Buckley has returned home to receive a kicking from rival codes. His old boss, AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou, effectively lobbed a hand grenade by stating that Australia ...
  3 weeks ago

• AFL season in doubt if World Cup bid successful

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 459
  The AFL could be forced to cancel its season if Australia wins the right to host the 2018 or 2022 soccer World Cup, AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said on Monday. Demetriou said that if world soccer’s governing body FIFA could claim exclusive access to the nation’s biggest stadium – the 100,000-capacity ...
  3 weeks ago

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