AFL Umpire arrested

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AFL umpire Michael Pell has been arrested in relation to suspicious betting on this years Brownlow Medal.

Victoria Police said detectives from the Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit made the arrests on Monday morning as part of an investigation relating to "the release of the Brownlow Medal voting tallies from matches" this season.

"It's alleged that a person with knowledge of the voting tally of these matches distributed the information to a group of people known to them," the Victoria Police statement read.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-14/ ... /101651242


This is absolutely crazy and always bound to happen if it hasn't already. I believe there were rumours of it in happening 1989.

[s'dreams]

It puts paid to the myth/lie that nobody has seen or even knows the votes until they are opened on the night.

[F111]

It puts paid to the myth/lie that nobody has seen or even knows the votes until they are opened on the night.

Do they shuffle the order of the last round votes to have the contenders last?
If not, the way the winner is usually announced at the penultimate or last call of votes pretty much confirms that someone knows something beforehand.

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It puts paid to the myth/lie that nobody has seen or even knows the votes until they are opened on the night.

Not really.
Of course the umpires in each match know the votes.