{"id":599342,"date":"2026-04-11T04:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:44:12","slug":"leigh-matthews-fires-up-over-chris-scotts-apology-to-the-afl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599342\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Matthews fires up over Chris Scott&#8217;s apology to the AFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Matthews has fired up over Geelong head coach Chris Scott having to apologise to the AFL for his criticism about wildcard round.<\/p>\n<p>Scott labelled the round a \u201ccash grab\u201d, but has since had to apologise according to Caroline Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApologise for telling the truth?\u201d Matthews said on 3AW Football.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear his feisty comments (and the news on the round that Caroline Wilson has labelled \u2019embarrassing\u2019)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust accept the reality of where we are in the elite sports competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Images: James Wiltshire\/Getty, Supplied\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Matthews has fired up over Geelong head coach Chris Scott having to apologise to the AFL for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-599342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}