Leigh Matthews has slammed the AFL after finding out how the league treats its umpires.

Caroline Wilson spoke on Footy Classified about how AFL umpires don’t have a permanent ground to train on, with Matthews labelling the treatment “astounding and embarrassing”.

“The look of it is just terrible for the game, I find it hard to believe that this is the fact,” he said to Sam McClure on 3AW’s Wide World of Sports.

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