The phrase "tussle between" is correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The two siblings engaged in a tussle between who would get the last piece of cake.
A political tussle between the director general and the chairman.
The tussle between nationalities seems to come up a lot.
Underlying the confusion is a tussle between the spoken and written word.
The stage is set for a fascinating tussle between law and politics.
This is, of course, just the latest salvo in the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and Google.
Well, if this tussle between fans is anything to go on.
It's quite an odd thing to be in a tussle between politicians.
And in the tussle between them, football is several light years ahead.
This election is nothing but a tussle between political heavyweights who represent different strata of society.
"It's big," he said of the tussle between the airlines over JAL.
From 2009 onwards, it became a brutal tussle between three combatants: Gillard, Rudd and Abbott.
