Uproar over AFL free kick
Sydney Morning Herald
Commentators were left stunned when umpires paid a free kick against Melbourne's Jacob van Rooyen during their loss to Carlton.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897. It changed its name to Australian Football League in 1990 after expanding its competition to other Australian states in the 1980s. The AFL publishes its Laws of Australian football, which are used, with variations, by other Australian football organisations.
Commentators were left stunned when umpires paid a free kick against Melbourne's Jacob van Rooyen during their loss to Carlton.