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Former VFL umpire Murray Bird has produced a book called "Athenians and Red Invincibles" it tells the story of the beginnings of football in the north of Australia in 1866. If you are interested in attending...

Boundary umpire Rob Haala ran under the spotlight at the MCG on Saturday night with the footy focusing on the centre piece of the indigenous round, Dreamtime at the G and the great 400 game milestone of Dustin ...

As Hawthorn premiership defender Grant Birchall and Melbourne captain Nathan Jones shake hands before the pre-game coin toss, participating in awe is 19-year-old Isabel Fitzgerald. From her vantage point in the...

Every Tuesday and Thursday night, there’s always a familiar face at AFL Umpires training down here in Melbourne. Head trainer Phil Watson is the man who makes sure each and every umpire is looked after when ...

It only seems like yesterday that scoreboards and journalists were calling Brendan anything other than Hosking when he had his first game in 2012 between Greater Western Sydney and West Coast Eagles.  "It becam...

I wonder how many of you, like me, saw Michael Marantelli's great running prowess and automatically assumed that his transition into umpiring came on the back of his elite running skills.  Not so. "I loved t...