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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.
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 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).
The Melbourne Football Club tanking scandal refers to issues involving the Melbourne Football Club and allegations that it had tanked towards the latter part of the 2009 season – that is, that it had intentionally lost matches near the end of the season so that it would receive a priority draft pick in the upcoming draft.
At the end of the 2002 AFL season, shortly before the 2002 AFL Draft was to take place, the Australian Football League announced that it had found the Carlton Football Club guilty of "deliberate, elaborate and sophisticated" breaches of the salary cap during 2000 and 2001.
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.
Doping cases in Australian rules football (32 P) Pages in category "Australian rules football controversies" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Shepherding is a tactic and skill in Australian rules football, a team sport. The term originates from the word shepherd , someone who influences the movement of sheep in a paddock . Using their body as an obstruction, Australian rules footballers can influence the movement of opponents, most often to prevent them from gaining possession or ...