Brendan Fevola’s New York freebie now OK?

Carlton’s Brendan Fevola always provides good copy for the tabloids.

Yesterday’s Sunday Herald Sun featured the Blues spearhead talking about his October US holiday and revealing he’d used ex-Carlton president Richard Pratt’s New York apartment during his stay:

Mercurial Blue Brendan Fevola was given the keys to ex-Carlton president Richard Pratt’s multi-million-dollar New York apartment during a recent US holiday…for several days during a month-long holiday in the States in October.

But in September, Fevola told the Sunday Herald Sun he wouldn’t be visiting New York and would be heading to Cuba instead. The Herald Sun reported salary cap concerns had thwarted Fevola’s holiday plans:

Fevola’s three-week family holiday in October has also been re-jigged. It is understood he had hoped to use the Pratt family’s New York apartment. But salary cap concerns have thwarted the plan once again. “It was never booked in (New York) in the first place,” Fevola said.  “We’re not going to New York any more. We’re now off to Cuba.”

So why didn’t the Herald Sun ask whether the use of the apartment was within AFL salary cap rules since they made such a big deal of the issue two months ago?