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Bodyline controversy between Australian and English cricket teams over fast bowling tactics. The controversy threatened the political relationship between Australia and England. Water polo: 1956: Blood in the Water match – a match between Hungary and USSR at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics was abandoned after violence in the pool.
The AFL siren controversy, informally known as Sirengate, was the controversial conclusion and result of an Australian rules football match played on 30 April 2006 during round 5 of the Australian Football League's 2006 season.
The Essendon Football Club supplements saga was a sports drug doping controversy that occurred during the early- and mid-2010s.It centred around the Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne and playing in the Australian Football League (AFL).
In 2004, Portuguese Police launched the operation Apito Dourado and named several Portuguese club presidents and football personalities as suspects of match fixing, including FC Porto's chairman Pinto da Costa. Some of the wiretaps used as proof, deemed inadmissible in court, can now be found on YouTube. [17] [18]
The Australian Dream, also known as Australian Dream, is a feature-length documentary film released in Australia in 2019. Featuring Australian Football League (AFL) player Adam Goodes , the film examines Australian Aboriginal identity and racism in modern Australia, with the sustained booing of Goodes by spectators as a starting point.
Australian rules football controversies (1 C, 13 P) D. Drugs in sport in Australia (1 C, 4 P) ... John the bookmaker controversy; L. Line in the Sand Match; M.
Pages in category "Australian rules football controversies" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Tasmanian State Premiership was a competition played most years from 1909 until 1978 between the individual premiers of Tasmania's two or three major football leagues: the Hobart-based Tasmanian Football League (TFL/TANFL); the Launceston-based Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA); and (after 1950) the North West Football Union (NWFU), based on the north-western coast of the state.