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Twenty straight days of AFL: a festival of footy that could go either way – The Guardian

Players and staff are about to enter a three-week period of eat, sleep, play, fly and precious little else

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In a season of unwanted firsts the AFL is set to charter yet more virgin territory when it crams 33 matches across 20 consecutive days, starting on Wednesday night when Western Bulldogs face Richmond at Metricon Stadium. For some, it is Christmas in July. For the AFL, it will go down as either a masterstroke of fixturing or a haphazard experiment that might bring the integrity of the competition into question.
There is common sense behind the radical move. With teams safely ensconced in hubs an…

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